[Info-vax] Rdb/x86

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-11-30, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, November 30, 2020 at 8:07:48 AM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2020-11-27, Dave Froble <da... at tsoft-inc.com> wrote: 
>> > On 11/27/2020 1:52 PM, Simon Clubley wrote: 
>> >> 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? 
>> >
>> Just the opposite. It was engineers indicating that it was going to 
>> become available on x86-64 VMS until it suddenly wasn't.
>> Simon. 
>> 
>
> To be clear, I never said that.  If you look at the slides from any of my earliest compiler presentations, I either kept Ada separate or didn't mention it at all.   Our "GEM to LLVM" converter is not sufficient for our ancient DEC Ada which was never on Itanium, just Alpha.   What I have said is that I personally think that an Ada solution would be helpful to many customers.

I wasn't thinking of you when I said that.

It was someone else from VSI, probably Clair, who indicated the efforts
being made to get Ada on to x86-64 VMS. At some point those efforts
collapsed suddenly and hence no Ada for x86-64 VMS.

Simon.

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