[FreeVMS] Current status?

[Renee]

VMS, the real VMS has just been sold by HP to a group in Massachusetts. They own the sources and plan to take VMS to intel processors, the X86 line later!
Renee Culver - formerly from VMS Engineering.
 
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From: FreeVMS [mailto:freevms-bounces at systella.fr] On Behalf Of Roar Thronæs
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2014 7:59 AM
To: FreeVMS mailing list
Subject: Re: [FreeVMS] Current status?

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 09:58:17AM +0100, BERTRAND Joël wrote:
> 
> 	L4 is alive. I have received a patch to avoid a gcc bug but I 
> 	haven't time enough to test it.

Your little time and not finding other people with L4 capabilities seem to be a bottleneck and showstopper here, for the moment. (5 years now?)

But we should not let that stop the whole project.
We should still continue to develop the user/high-level parts.

I suggest using two parallell paths.

The second being that someone will continue developing from the 0.3.15 release that I was responsible for (but trying to keep away from kernel parts that in the future will be replaced by L4.
Then at a later stage, do a merge when the L4 part is ready.)

The 0.3.15 release contains features like:
DCL client shell.
DCL utilities copy, delete, directory, search, type,
    show device/system/logical/working_set.
RMS/ODS-2.
RTL libraries with STR$ and LIB$.
Approx. 50 system services.
Essential VMS kernel features for ASTs, event flags, locks, scheduling,
    time support, process control, working set, QIO, mailboxes, logicals etc.
Internet connection with CMUIP.

The last release of something that could be used, 0.3.15, was almost 5 years ago, and we should reconsider the strategy. 

All we have available now is an image that boots, and says FreeVMS 0.4.0 (R), and some other lines with the word FreeVMS/VMS, and then ends with "%RUN-S-STOPPED, PAGER.SYS process stopped", and can not be used for anything.

That is IMHO many big steps back from the 0.3.15 image with a DCL command line that could actually do something, and not something that inspires new people to join and develop.

I will try to get hold of some 0.3.15 image, but currently it is stuck on some server that has some serious networking problem, so it is not possible to download yet, but I will come back to this when I succeed.

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Regards,
Roar Thronæs
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