[Info-vax] X86 first boot?

[clair.grant@vmssoftware.com]

On Friday, March 29, 2019 at 6:26:02 AM UTC-4, clairg... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 11:58:09 PM UTC-4, John Santos wrote:
> > The VSI home page https://vmssoftware.com/index.html says 
> > that Proof Point 27 (Do a DIR on the console and get 
> > correct results) has been achieved.  This would constitute 
> > first boot, according to the rules of last year's contest.
> > 
> > Howver, the porting status page 
> > https://vmssoftware.com/updates_port.html says Points 25, 
> > 26 and 27 are still pending, so maybe not.
> > 
> > As of few days ago (the last time I checked), it had been 
> > stuck on Point 21 for a month or so.
> > 
> > So good news, maybe really good news!
> 
> To begin with, I have high praise for our new web operation. However, even with my very specific requests, someone in the pipe line made a couple assumptions that are not true. We are all human.
> 
> First, #27 has not been achieved but we are closing in on it. Second, of slightly lesser importance, is that #23 Mounting the System Disk has not been achieved; that is one of things we are working on now. However, #24 is complete. Things are not completely serial at this point.
> 
> I will try to get these corrected ASAP.

It has been updated. Rather than trying to make the out of order #24 achieved prior to #23, I decided to leave it as is. Mount is so close that it is not worth the effort to wordsmith it. OK, for a couple days we are telling a minor fib.