[Info-vax] What would be involved in moving RMS into kernel mode ?

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2023-05-10 kl. 08:36, skrev Jan-Erik Söderholm:
> Den 2023-05-10 kl. 01:16, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
>> On 5/9/2023 2:29 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>> Well, it is not ready for production for us, anyway... :-)
>>
>> Isn't VMS itself production ready for you, but you
>> are waiting for a bunch of products?
>>
>> Most important Cobol compiler and Rdb database.
>>
>> But probably also Python and a few other things.
>>
>> Arne
>>
>>
> 
> Those two. And some other old tools like a user VT menu system
> that lacks source code, that we need to replace. We have an initial
> meeting on Friday with our infra/platform group to discuss a possible
> Alpha/x86 migration for our VMS environment. We'll see...
> 
> Our current Python code is V2.7, so I expect some conversion there also.

But my main point was that "production ready" can mean very different
things for different environment and users. It might not as simple as
Simon seems to belive.