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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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On 2018-06-27, Dan'l Miller <optikos@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at 2:05:57 PM UTC-5, Shark8 wrote:
>> Having a good up-to-date compiler for the release of x86_64 OpenVMS may even prove to be more
>> beneficial than VxWorks, ultimately
>
>   How so?  VxWorks is at the heart of lots o' stuff in the hardware-with-embedded-software world, including IoT nowadays.  Is OpenVMS still seeing new accounts added at all?

VMS has an installed base which is large enough for a company
called VSI to be in the middle of porting it to x86-64. I would be
surprised if VMS is picking up completely new customers however.

(But it may be picking up some currently out of support customers).

VSI are also providing support for VMS on Itanium and even Alpha as
it turns out there's enough Alpha customers to make the latter viable.

HPE are also currently offloading some of their VMS support functions
to VSI.

Simon.

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