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

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On Friday, July 22, 2022 at 6:21:01 AM UTC+2, tink... at gmail.com wrote:
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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. 
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> 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

Some may think RISC-V is a decent target, with the hypervisor of course.

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