[Info-vax] Rdb/x86

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/13/2020 11:00 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <rom141$v4h$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>> This would send a major signal because VSI have managed to get _Oracle_
>> to commit to Rdb on x86-64 and it would be a major confidence boost that
>> x86-64 VMS is less likely to suddenly fail at the last moment.
> 
> Rdb was ported before.  Maybe they did it right.  Maybe it was more or
> less compile and go, hence not a big commitment.  Not to take away from
> Rdb engineering, but trying to spin this as some huge commitment on the
> part of Oracle would probably be stretching it.  Has Larry heard of Rdb?
> Very probably.  VSI?  Probably.  The port?  Maybe a word or two.  I'm
> sure that he is more committed to his yachts than to VMS.

The word is that Rdb is very much Bliss.

A port to a different ISA with same OS, same compiler, same
bitness, same endianess and a simpler memory model should
not be too bad.

Arne