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

[Greg Tinkler]

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Using $QIO is fine for us old VMSers, but if you want to play in the 'new' commercial pack then you need higher level programming.
Hence why VSI has I believed VSI has rightly focused on C/C++ and getting it more up to date with the current standards.  Fantastic effort by John R.

Now, well once the dust has settled a little with the compilers, to focus on the next layer which is the RMS (VMSIO) layer, then the $QIO/XQP/XFC layer.
As part of that will need to be DCL64, just to support VMSIO-64/RMS64.

Yup there is a huge range of thing that would be good to have done, but all depends on getting RMS/$QIO to 64 bit.

gt