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

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On Friday, July 15, 2022 at 7:33:46 AM UTC-7, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 7/15/22 09:02, Simon Clubley wrote: 
> > On 2022-07-14, Arne Vajhøj <ar... 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.
> Might be that the COBOL compiler is easier to port than the 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 ?
> A bigger question would be other than Dave how much of the VMS 
> application base still uses BASIC. :-) 
> 
> bill

Plus ca chose:
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/rsx11m_s/RSX11M_V3/Final_Project_Plan_for_RSX-11M_Release_3_197604.pdf

check pg. 6