[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Bob Wilson]

> Approximately nobody was working with the 32-bit build environment 
> after V7.3, save for building incremental fixes.  Source code control 
> was still active, as were targeted builds for patches. I don't recall 
> if there were any full builds after V7.3 shipped, but there would not 
> have been very many of those. 


There were in fact post-V7.3 full VAX VMS system builds done. It was never explicitly stated that there would no longer be any VAX VMS releases, so....the build & release team has to make sure that at least the build infrastructure works even though the output is totally broken. We actually were down to "quarterly builds" for that reason.

Also *many* checkins were done [by conscientious engineers who maintained facilities that were common between the VAX and Alpha architectures...they/we never got the word to stop] (I got emails for each one, so I can assure you that there were non-remedial post-V7.3 checkins).