[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 17:22:34 -0500, Robert A. Brooks wrote:

> 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.

That’s just trying to rephrase it in a more PR-friendly way.

> 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.

Such a long-winded way of saying “we could not make VMS fully 64-bit, even 
on our own fully 64-bit hardware”.