[Info-vax] VMS Software Releases Roadmap Updates

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 9/28/21 2:42 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-09-28, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> On 9/28/2021 1:36 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2021-09-27, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I don't think it was the money.  Bill is a bit old fashioned, like me,
>>>> and just feels the build tools should be native.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You've never done any embedded work have you ? :-)
>>>
>>> Simon.
>>>
>>
>> No, I have not.  But I knew that much of such development would not be
>> on the target platform.  No or few such tools on the dedicated HW.
>>
>> General purpose computers are another world, and, I'm old fashioned, and
>> don't get out much.
>>
> 
> Didn't someone once say that NonStop uses a cross compiler development
> model ?
> 
> I know that IBM has various tools for doing z/OS development on a PC.
> 

A lot now, but not really a comparison.  The development system is
cheap and common, not expensive, rare and obsolete.  The users in
all likelihood already have one.  Even in the case of new entries
they already have them.

bill