[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-07-22, Robert A. Brooks <FIRST.LAST at vmssoftware.com> 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 ?
>   
> The layered products (other than compilers, of which I have no knowledge)
> were all common source for VAX, Alpha, and IA64.
>
> Paul Anderson and I have largely scrubbed any VAX-specific stuff from the build
> command procedures and MMS description files, and in some cases from the source,
> in order to make things more readable.  For FMS, for example, in making it work
> on X86, there were a lot of conditionals where Alpha and IA64 took one branch,
> and VAX took the other.  In those cases, I removed the conditional check and the
> VAX code, making it much easier to read.
>

Yes, that makes sense especially when you have determined that you will
_never_ be marketing a VSI version of VAX/VMS.

> I do not think we were given anything related to VAXeln.
>

Probably not a surprise actually. I asked the question because I was
wondering if you were given everything, including long-dead products
(in case you wanted to revive a specific product), or if you only got
the products which were active at the time of the handover.

Simon.

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