[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-07-22, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 7/22/2020 8:34 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On a more serious note, what I haven't seen discussed is the situation
>> regarding the VAX Layered Products.
>> 
>> Did you just get a core set of the VAX LP source code, such as some of the
>> compilers, or did you get pretty much everything ever produced for VAX
>> by DEC including products like VAXELN ?
>
> When you say VAXELN do you mean the VMS source code for the tools
> running on VMS generating VAXELN code or do you mean the source code
> for the VAXELN stuff?
>
> (the answer may be the same but it could be different)
>

For all practical purposes, they are the same thing.

I don't know how much experience you have with embedded systems, but
with tools like VAXELN, the libraries used to construct the final
bootable system images ship as part of VAXELN.

You use a VAXELN compiler running on VMS (such as the VAXELN version
of Pascal) to compile your source code and then you use another VAXELN
tool, also running on VMS, to generate the final system image that is
then booted on the target system.

Simon.

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