[Info-vax] Update Kit for OpenVMS 9.1 released today

^P peter.ljungberg.sui at gmail.com
Sun Aug 22 10:12:40 EDT 2021


On Sunday, August 22, 2021 at 3:45:07 PM UTC+2, Mark Daniel wrote:
> On 22/8/21 10:37 pm, Craig A. Berry wrote: 
> > 
> > On 8/22/21 7:24 AM, ^P wrote: 
> >> Is there any defined date when x86 version of VMS can be available to 
> >> non-customer i.e hobbyist or similar? 
> > 
> > All of the field test docs refer only to "customers" so my unofficial 
> > guess would be that the v9.2 production release is the earliest that's 
> > likely to be available under the community license. You can read the 
> > roadmap yourself for when that's scheduled to happen. 
> >> In the meantime, can someone please provide a VMS x86 binary for 
> >> analysis? 
> > 
> > Not legally, no.
> Binaries are provided all the time, e.g. freeware ... 
> 
> https://www.theberrymans.com 
> 
> How is x86-64 any different? 
> 
> https://wasd.vsm.com.au/wasd_tmp/ 
> 
> Usual disclaimers apply. 
> 
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> seriously to examine their critical thinking.

Many thanks you for the links, I haven't seen any x86 freeware until now

> How is x86-64 any different? 

This is the question I want to know the answer to.

If anyone happen to know any freeware  binary/executable that uses MMX, SSE, AVX instructions, please let me know.

Regards., Peter



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