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

[Mark Daniel]

On 10/5/2023 4:06 pm, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 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.

VSI Python 3 (Itanium) is all-but-ready using the WASD PyRTE Jan-Erik.

   https://wasd.vsm.com.au/wasd_root/src/python/readmore.html

Should just be a matter of compiling for X86 once available.

Sorry but Python 2 -> 3 is not my specialty.

Nor much else Pythonesque (even though a big fan).

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