[Info-vax] General Availability of 9.2 for x86-64

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-07-14, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 7/14/2022 12:18 PM, John Dallman wrote:
>> Announced today:
>> <https://vmssoftware.com/about/news/2022-07-14-openvms-v92-for-x86-announc
>> ed/>
>> 
>> "VSI is also planning on making OpenVMS V9.2 available to hobbyists as
>> soon as more native compilers are available."
>
> https://vmssoftware.com/about/roadmap/ says:
>
> July
> OpenVMS V9.2 (Limited Production Release)
> ...
> Native compilers with LLVM backend code generator:
>      BLISS, XMACRO, C++ (Phase 1)
> ...
> July-November
> ...
> Additional native compilers
>      C, COBOL, and C++ (Phase 2 ? VMS Extensions)

Interesting that COBOL is a way higher priority than Fortran.

I assume what that is saying is that many scientific workloads have long
moved away from VMS.

> ...
> November/December
> OpenVMS V9.2-1 (Production Release ? x86-64)
> ...
> OpenJDK for x86
> Native compilers with LLVM backend code generator:
>      Fortran, BASIC, and Pascal
>

One unknown is Pascal. There's obviously still a demand for it, but how
much of the VMS application base still uses Pascal ?

Simon.

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