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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/10/2023 2:36 AM, 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.
> 
> 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...

My expectation is that most current VMS shops are in a process like:
* which of our dependencies are already available on x86-64?
* when will the missing dependencies be available?
* are there and dependencies that will not be available ever? what
   can we replace them with?
* when can we start test on x86-64?
* how long a test do we need?

Software availability is everything.

Arne