[Info-vax] OpenVMS on X86-64, whats next

[Greg Tinkler]

Fantastic to see a release of OpenVMS on X86-64, huge effort by a lot of people.

My question is whats next?

There is a large list of things on the wish list, and interestingly as soon as the release announcement was made the first thing people mentioned was the 32 vs 64 confusion that exists.  
This has been an ongoing point of contention for over 10 years, just look back at some of the older posts.  For me it has been ongoing for 30 years, this year.

I had previously posted about not using SSIO, rather fixing CRTL.  I then wrote from sample 32bit code as a proof of concept.  This code has now been altered use RAB64, i.e. cc/point=64.  Well that was a whole heap of fun, and underlined for me as to the importance of OpenVMS becoming a PROPER 64 bit OS.  It also made be realize that call RMS a record manage system is incorrect, it has 3 parts (read the doco) file handling, record management, RAW IO.  A much better name to avoid confusing the lx/Ux group is VMSIO.

Any well done John etl, look forward to even more improvements.
gt, downunder