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From: Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: VSI OpenVMS Webinar 6th June 2024 online
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On 16/06/2024 13:43, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 6/16/2024 8:27 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 6/16/2024 6:44 AM, Chris Townley wrote:
>>> On 16/06/2024 11:37, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
>>>> John H. Reinhardt explained on 14/06/2024 :
>>>>> https://youtu.be/JDzZ91MzZfo?si=5u91rrBPAt2YgQEd
>>>>>
>>>>> Simon's gonna love the timeline on this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Camiel is firmly in charge of the OpenVMS direction.
>>>>>
>>>>>    VMSClusters in the cloud in 2026
>>>>>
>>>>> No mention of Hobbyists or the Ambassador program.
>>>>>
>>>>> Norm Lastovica of SCI (Software Concepts International) talks about 
>>>>> migration to x86
>>>>
>>>> It seems that, from this presentation, VSI purchased Polycenter 
>>>> products
>>>> back from Broadcom. They only mentioned Watchdog but I think the 3 
>>>> other
>>>> products are in the deal too. What they want to do with that is still
>>>> totally unknown. Port of Watchdog to X86 most unlikely as it is all
>>>> written in ADA...
>>>
>>> What is the state of Gnat on VMS?
>>
>> ACT dropped VMS support in 2015.
>>
>> For what is available then to my understanding:
>>
>> Alpha : very old 3.12.8 (based on GCC 2.8.1)
> 
> That should be available from many places.
> 
> But if you can't find it then I have a copy.
> 
>> Itanium : see https://github.com/AdaLabs/gnat-vms
>>
>> x86-86 : nothing
> 
> Arne
> 
> 
Thanks. I had DEC Ada on VMS 7.3 on AXP

I just wondered how difficult it would be to port Gnat to VMS. The Ada 
community seem to have lots of offerings - why not VMS X86?

-- 
Chris