[Info-vax] VMS Software Releases Roadmap Updates

[Dave Froble]

On 9/28/2021 2:53 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2021-09-28 kl. 20:11, skrev Dave Froble:
>> 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.
>
> Note that, what Simon calls "embedded" today, it just the same kind
> of development that was once done for VAXELN. You wrote, compiled
> and linked your application on one system and then deployed on
> another system. Your application booted directly without any
> underlaying operating system.

Well, if one wants to look at it from this perspective, we don't do any 
development on customer systems.  Yes, we compile and link there, but, 
we don't really have to do so.  Executables could be moved from out 
development environment to customer systems.

Not such an alien concept.

:-)

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