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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/15/2022 9:02 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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 think that was to be expected.

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

Scientific workloads like cheap CPU's and cheap OS.

>> ...
>> 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 ?

Based on questions here and at forum.vmssoftware.com then it seems
like there are still some Pascal users.

Arne