[Info-vax] OpenVMS V9.0-C Released July 29th

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 8/17/2020 4:15 PM, personanongratasalata at gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, August 3, 2020 at 11:41:24 AM UTC-4, Robert A. Brooks
> wrote:
>> Adding to what Clair said, DECnet Phase IV is substantially smaller
>> and less > complicated than DECnet Phase V, which is why we're
>> working on Phase IV first.
> 
> Having made major contributions to the Phase IV and Phase V ports to
> Alpha, I concur that's the correct porting order.  Watch out for the
> MAP_TO_SVA macro if it still exists...  Maybe Phase IV is enough to
> keep customers happy and VSI won't need to port the bloated Phase V
> :-)

We will port Phase V.

With modern systems, we can build all of Phase V in about 20 minutes (IA64) and 35 minutes (Alpha),
excluding OSAK, FTAM, and VT.  Fibre channel storage helps a lot!

The biggest chore will be elimination of SVAPTEs (both real and generic pointer), as there
is no SVAPTE cell in an IRP or VCRP on X86.

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                       -- Rob