[Info-vax] Which programming language would you like to see officially supported on VMS ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/13/2020 4:43 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2020-08-13 kl. 22:23, skrev Stephen Hoffman:
>> With a stable x86-64 port, there's a place for folks currently running 
>> OpenVMS on Alpha and Itanium to upgrade to.
>>
>> That'll be an app port with an x86-64 hardware upgrade that will take 
>> many sites five or ten years to complete, too. Assuming prerequisites 
>> are available, etc.
>>
>> And that porting is also after sorting out which x86-64 hardware 
>> configurations are supported, if not booting OpenVMS hosted and/or as 
>> a guest in a supported hypervisor.
> 
> OK. I do not know what I know, but my guess is that many/most, that port
> their VMS environment to x86, will run under a hypervisor.
> 
> And that fits well at larger sites where VMS is that weird system that
> needs it own weird hardware. If it can be included together with the
> other "servers" that just runs in an VM, fine. No new hardware to buy
> and install. Just spin up an additional VM...

All the common platforms are embracing virtualization so it seems
likely that the VMS world will too.

More flexible.

Fits into the standard IT env.

Less HW dependence.

Better HW utilization (a low end x86-64 CPU will be 16 cores - not
many existing VMS systems will be able to utilize that).

Arne