[Info-vax] Final Oracle release on VMS.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/28/2020 7:04 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 10/28/2020 9:21 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> For the people who continue to wait for x86-64 VMS to become production
>> ready, they will still need to see Rdb is working correctly on x86-64
>> before they trust their production data to it so that is at least an
>> extra year or so after release of x86-64 Rdb until people trust it 
>> enough.
> 
> Perhaps you revisit Mark Daniel's short write-up on the port of WASD to 
> x86 VMS V9.0, which used cross compilers.  Somehow, I've got to think 
> that x86 VMS V9.2 will be much easier to use.

Rdb may be a bit more complex than WASD.

But if VSI does not make any breaking changes in various
libraries or the Bliss compiler, then Rdb team may also
start by just building and see how it works.

If they have any Alpha & Itanium assembler they
maywill need to write some new code.

They may also need to do something in the code
generating tools.

But probably not too bad.

Arne