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

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 6/7/2019 10:08 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 6/7/2019 5:22 PM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
>> On 6/7/2019 3:48 PM, IanD wrote:
>>> The hobbyist program is eagerly awaited
>>> 
>>> [...] I've seen little evidence even the new code VSI has written for VMS
>>> will be open sourced.
>> 
>> It's not going to happen; give it up.
>> 
> 
> Just curious Rob, is that a business decision, or determined by prior legal 
> agreements?  I've read before that what VSI writes is their own property.

While what we write is ours, what we write is useless without what DEC/CPQ/HP(E)
has written.  Much of the kernel is unchanged from what we've received from HPE.

While the port to X86_64 has required a lot of new stuff (memory management, for 
example, is a big area of change), layered products (non-compilers), process 
management, utilities (COPY, DIRECTORY, PCSI, etc...) are largely unchanged.

You could not do anything with just the stuff we've written.

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                  -- Rob