On Friday, May 7, 2021, 11:07 CDT, Zane Healy <heal...@avanthar.com> wrote: > These if I needed OpenVMS on a laptop, I'd simply run it via emulator or > virtualization > (not an option for Itanium). I gather that at least some > development on OpenVMS 9.2 > is being done on VM's running on the developers laptops.
Well, the latest version shipping from Bolton is V9.0-H, which has the long-awaited support for VMware, and IIRC some non-zero number of compilers available. It's still pretty well set in the "bleeding-edge" field of software though. It's labelled as V90EAK, with the last three letters indicating "Early Adopters' Kit", and made available to a rather small number of VMS customers who are interested in making their own products run on X64-86 platforms (as well as work properly on Itanics running v9.x) I don't know whether VSI has any particular policy about making the field test kits available to hobbyists/end-users quite yet. Bear in mind that there's a LOT of VMS components which aren't really ready to use yet. If memory serves, the V9.1 kit will also be labelled as 'field test', but will be made available to a larger number of customers/test sites, and is expected to include working versions of the components currently 'in progress'. Regards,Dick
