[Info-vax] State of the OpenVMS hobbyist program?

[Hans Bachner]

Jan-Erik Söderholm schrieb am 22.11.2019 um 00:21:
> Den 2019-11-22 kl. 00:04, skrev dgordonatvsi at gmail.com:
>> On Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 5:20:54 PM UTC-5, Jan-Erik Söderholm
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Note that the first "VSI OpenVMS Alpha" was more or less just a
>>> recompile of the then current "HP OpenVMS Alpha". Then came an
>>> optimized version for later Alpha processors...
>>
>> No.  The "Alpha Evaluation Kit" was V8.4-2 source compiled for Alpha and
>> the V84-2L1/2L2 two Alpha kits were V8.4-2L1 source compiled for Alpha
>> two ways.
>>
> 
> 
> OK, right... So, apart from the EV6 (maybe EV56) optimized version, was
> there any other major functional difference between HP and VSI OpenVMS
> Alpha?

The "VSI OpenVMS [IA64] Version V8.4-2 Cover Letter and Release Notes" 
list new features, bug fixes and improvements over HPE V8.4 on 28 pages. 
V8.42-L1 adds SSL1 support as well as six patches for V8.4-2.

Most if not all of these improvements should be visible on Alpha as well 
(except updates to UEFI support).

Hans.