[Info-vax] VSI roadmap

[Chris Townley]

On 21/08/2023 18:29, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-08-21, Chris Townley <news at cct-net.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 21/08/2023 13:23, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2023-08-18, ultr... at gmail.com <ultradwc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> THEN YOU MAKE SURE SYNERGY PORTS THEIR DIBOL LANGUAGE ALONG WITH SQL CONNECT WHICH CONNECTS TO ORACLE
>>>>
>>>> https://www.synergex.com/products-connectivity-open-source/
>>>
>>> Two things Bob:
>>>
>>> 1) Porting Dibol to x86-64 VMS does nothing to solve the problems
>>> discussed here.
>>>
>>> 2) If Synergex have decided not to port to x86-64 VMS (based on your
>>> comments) then it might mean they no longer have enough VMS users to
>>> justify the port.
>>>
>>> In that case, you are looking at moving your Dibol code over to another
>>> platform such as Linux. This is a problem that (for example) Ada users
>>> have had to deal with as there will not be an Ada compiler for x86-64 VMS.
>>>
>>> Simon.
>>
>> unless of course there comes an opensource port?
>>
> 
> That will not happen. That simply will not happen.
> 
> Not only has the language been massively extended since the DEC days,
> the language itself is only one part of a Synergex toolkit, which
> includes, among other things, a GUI/character cell forms environment
> integrated into Synergex Dibol user source code that would also need
> to be duplicated.
> 
> IOW, this is no longer DEC ANSI DIBOL we are talking about.
> 
> Try to imagine the effort involved with implementing DEC Basic (or similar)
> on Linux and then imagine several times that amount of work. That's the
> amount of effort (at an absolute minimum) we are talking about here.
> 
> And this is based on my last knowledge of the language from a decade or
> so ago before I changed jobs. Goodness knows how much else has been added
> since then.
> 
> Simon.
> 
> PS: BTW Bob, you may wish to consider an upgrade to a TTY Model 43.
> They have a much nicer keyboard than the ASR 33 and also support lowercase.
> 

Actually I was thinking of ADA

-- 
Chris