[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 1/5/2024 5:10 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
  
> And yet they were never able to make VMS a fully 64-bit OS, even on their
> own fully 64-bit hardware.

That statement is literally not true.

The issue isn't that we are not capable of doing that; we don't want to break
decades of compatibility in order to do that.

The project of getting the native X86_64 C++ compiler to straddle the 32- and 64-bit world
of VMS and play nice with open source that expects fully 64-bitness everywhere would be much
easier if we could abandon the 32-bit aspects of VMS, but we cannot, if we expect the vast majority
of our customers to remain on VMS.

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	-- Rob