[Info-vax] OpenVMS 9.1 C Compiler

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-09-24, Andrew Brehm <andrew at netneurotic.net> wrote:
> On 24/09/2021 15:52, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2021-09-24 kl. 14:08, skrev Andrew Brehm:
>
>>>
>>> Everything else is excusable (no web server, no database server etc.) but an OS must have a shell and a compiler or assembler for some language at a minimum.
>>>
>>> I hope 9.2 will be complete.
>>>
>>> Other than that I was not too unhappy with 9.1. Installation is quite fluent (even if a bit annoying with the serial connection) and the boot manager is very nice.
>> 
>> Now... VSI has been *very* clear about the situation around compilers.
>> I do not understand why you complain about that now or why you expected
>> anything else than what has been clearly communicated.
>> 
>> 
>
> What complaining?

You may not have intended it as such, but the above did come across
as complaining about the compiler situation, and for all the policy
communications complaints I have about VSI, they have indeed been
very clear about the compiler situation.

Now perhaps if I ask John how he's getting on with an Ada compiler ? :-)

Simon.

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