[Info-vax] Release of OpenVMS V9.2 for x86 Scheduled for July 14, 2022

Chris Townley news at cct-net.co.uk
Fri Jul 8 13:09:15 EDT 2022


On 08/07/2022 17:37, David Jones wrote:
> On Friday, July 8, 2022 at 11:00:09 AM UTC-4, Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote:
>> It's not so much that I like Macro32 (ok, I do, a little bit - to pretend to have full control).
>> My main reason for welcoming it is that it is the only, free, always there, 'compiler'
>> I occasionally write/wrote little handy tools, most for file analysis/fixes.
>> A text file with the program or Email copy and past of the code is often the easiest, sometimes the only way to get it on a customer box.
>> No, Macro is not suitable to code up an accounting system, but there is still a time and place for it.
>>
>> Ditto for DCL - 'programs'.
>>
> 
> Which is why it would be really nice if OpenVMS shipped with Python.

and also raises the question as to which Open source products are 
available on X86

-- 
Chris



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