[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[John E. Malmberg]

On 7/18/2020 2:19 PM, Alice Wyan wrote:
> On Saturday, 18 July 2020 00:47:19 UTC+2, Dave Froble  wrote:
>> I replied that I'm interested in VMS, TCP/IP, DECnet, and Basic.
> 
> I was quoted $500 for VMS and $500 for TCP/IP, so I guess that might
> be their flat fee quote for any of the PAKs...

There are several variants of the VMS paks, ranging from ones that just 
allow console + one logins to ones that allow unlimited users.

And some paks can limited or restricted to a specific hardware model 
which needs to be specified at the purchase time.

So it may matter what the actual VMS pack being sold is.

Assuming that only a VAX/VMS pak is able to be purchased.

The free CMU/IP stopped work at supporting the early OpenVMS/VAX 6.x 
releases.  The source for the last few bug fixes never got released 
before the distribution site was shutdown.  Not sure if or where he rest 
of the code got archived.

The GCC/VAX for 2.7.1 can be found on freeware.  The source to the 
GCC.EXE image which then invokes the actual compiler steps as 
subprocesses has been lost.  The source accompanying the binaries does 
not match or build into the GCC.EXE binary.

We do not know how long Process will be offering a Hobby license for 
VAX, as far as that option for TCP/IP.

Regards,
-John