[Info-vax] Regarding VMS on a VAX. Just curious...

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2020-08-12 17:16:43 +0000, gérard Calliet said:

> That's your style. Encyclopedic.
> ...
> So : how can we do VAX/VMS again? Concrete willings demanded.

OpenVMS x86-64 is the future, and is build on the VAX past, as well as 
on the present of Alpha and Itanium.



I'd much rather see VSI focusing on OpenVMS x86-64 and in hauling the 
64-bit environment and tooling forward, that work even to the relative 
detriment of OpenVMS I64 and OpenVMS Alpha work, too. And would suggest 
the same focus for app developers, too.

I liked VAX. It was a good product for its time. But OpenVMS VAX is 
dead. The last new release was very nearly twenty years ago, and the 
VAX hardware designs and limits pre-millennial.

For the remaining OpenVMS VAX commercial sites around, nothing here has 
changed. For hobbyists preferring VAX, yes. There is a transition ahead 
through 2021, for those that received the final HPE hobbyist PAKs.

But if you'd like to see the future of VAX rekindled, by all means do 
go find enough folks with enough money to invest in restarting OpenVMS 
VAX. Have at. Maybe join VSI?




And FWIW, in the English vernacular, Robert's "we" referred to VSI.  
That usage is akin to what is known in English as the "royal we"; of 
speaking officially, in this case.


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