[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <ropu1i$1htu$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
<arne at vajhoej.dk> writes: 

> If someone ask what DEC should have done 30 years ago then there
> are 20 people with an opinion.

Even if there are only 10 people in the room.  :-|

> If someone ask for a person to take over maintenance of
> some VMS open source then there are typical zero responses.

Some brave souls such as SMS have contributed significantly.  In that 
case, I helped out where I could by testing the >4GB zip and unzip on 
huge disks on powerful systems.

I'll have a bit more time in the future and might contribute something
here, but my first choice would probably be getting a modern LaTeX
distribution to build out of the box on VMS.  I'm still using one which
Ralf Gärtner put together a quarter of a century ago and was in
[TEXMF...] on a freeware CD.  It is still good enough for 99.9% of what
I do.  This wouldn't be coding so much as organization.  Much of LaTeX
was actually developed on VMS (both the original stuff by Lamport and
later extensions by others, many in Germany), and Lamport was working at
DEC when he developed it. 

Once it is set up it is relatively easy to keep up to date those parts 
which one actually needs.