[Info-vax] Rdb/x86

[Dave Froble]

On 11/27/2020 1:52 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2020-11-25, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:

>> Rdb engineers have said, publicly, for years now that they expect Rdb to
>> run on VMS a short time after the first boot.  Old news.
>>
>
> Most certainly not old news.
>
> Even if the engineers were saying that (and I didn't see any mention
> of that), you cannot trust what they said until their management made
> a decision.

If engineers have been told to work on a project, then the chances of 
that project becoming available are better than not.

Don't forget Simon, management can change their minds about things. 
Anything they say may not be any better forecast than what the engineers 
might say.

> At the start of the x86-64 VMS port, people were lead to believe that
> Ada would be coming to x86-64 VMS right until it was realised that it
> would not be.

Sort of reinforces my point, don't ya think?


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