[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Michael Moroney]

Bob Wilson <bwandmw at gmail.com> writes:

>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).

Emerald, correct? Supposed to be V7.4?

Wasn't that something that got cancelled as 8.x started to come out, or as
part of the Alphacide? [killing off VAX as well] Or was it always unofficial?