[Info-vax] C99 stuff (Re: The Road to V9.0)

[Dave Froble]

On 6/7/2019 9:57 PM, Steven Schweda wrote:
>> [...] Unless you donate an x86 machine to Steven Schweda,
>> [...]
>
>     Probably not required.  But, unless I can get licenses
> for the OS and tools at negligible expense, the hardware
> won't matter much.
>
>> [...] then we'll have to build them ourselves (assuming
>> that they compile out of the box).
>
>     Aside from some MMS/MMK mysteries, I wouldn't expect many
> problems.  But, until the VSI Hobbyist program appears, I
> wouldn't bet much on anything.  Currently, I can't run any
> VSI VMS releases on anything.  (I'll just hold my breath.)
>
>
>
>> [...] I suspect that he has at least one Windows or Linux
>> box. Since OpenVMS-X86-64 will run as a guest under Virtual
>> Box (among others) one does not need dedicated hardware to
>> work with OpenVMS-x86-64.
>
>
>     Not all my GNU/Linux systems use that CPU type, and my
> favorite Mac Pro (Early 2008) is stuck at 10.11.x (El
> Capitan), which seems to be too old for VirtualBox 6.0.8, but
> I do have Windows 7 and 10, and Debian 9, on a Dell Precision
> T7400 (Xeon E5430), which could probably be made to serve.
> Or I could sink another hundred or two dollars into different
> junk, as required.
>

Steven, in case you haven't already, why don't you contact VSI and 
discuss a developers license?  You might even make a deal to provide ZIP 
to them to offset any cost.

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