[Info-vax] api for ncp

[calliet gérard]

Le 30/07/2021 à 17:27, Stephen Hoffman a écrit :
> On 2021-07-30 14:09:46 +0000, calliet gérard said:
> 
>> I don't need a path forward in the situation, just a path backward :) 
>> - They need training for a totally freezed platform, for which they 
>> will make support for more than again 10 years.
> 
> I can't count the number of times I've heard variations of that same "we 
> can't" story told and re-told.
> 
> With staff dutifully and earnestly repeating what management has told them.
> 
> Then upper management decides the old needs gone.
> 
> And the same staff immediately commenced repeating the new management 
> position.
> 
> I've met various cases where the porting or remedial work was triggered 
> by the departure of specific long-timers and/or specific senior folks, too.
> 
> But yes, you're stuck with an installation of {whatever} with a whole 
> lot of {whatever} and clearly any resolution of this is blocked by 
> {whatever}.
> 
> Right up until upper management nopes some or all, switches directions, 
> and off we go on some whole new IT adventure.
> 
> Put differently, I've met claims similar to what this installation 
> professes, and the port or the remediation or replacement work started 
> the next day.
> 
> [eg: work on Alpha is ending, we're porting to Itanium. Writing this on 
> the day after the last available shipments of Itanium processors from 
> Intel, too.]
> 
> It's really quite striking to watch the speed of these IT transitions, 
> particularly after how slowly and painfully everything IT was working 
> prior.
> 
> If this particular case follows the general pattern I've met elsewhere, 
> I'd expect to see incremental ports to Linux and Ada, absent some 
> moderate-sized entity adding support for semi-recent Ada on OpenVMS 
> x86-64 and this addition alongside a sudden willingness to upgrade from 
> OpenVMS VAX to OpenVMS x86-64. This as the patience with the older stuff 
> ages out.
> 
> 
> 
You jump too fast on your (right) evaluations. Here it's a 
from-the-begining stuck, validated-one, don't move even something in the 
hardware. Think about a nuclear submarine - a pure example -, or a 
spatial station. Or the coliseum in Roma : the gardians cannot change a 
stone. Not at all a general case.
I hope you like museum, however. There are no new versions of "La Joconde".

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