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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2023-05-10 kl. 10:10, skrev 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).
> 

OK. Never have had any IA64 boxes here.

And that is also why cross-compiling can never be part of
anything "production ready" *for us*. For those having access
to IA64 systems it might be different, of course...