Re: OpenVMS Pearl - OpenVMS V8.0, first release on Itanium, ships today!!!

From: Hans Vlems (hvlems.nieuw_at_zonnet.nl)
Date: 06/30/03 

Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 20:46:28 +0200

Very nice indeed! Can I have an evaluation system at home? :-)

"Sue Skonetski" <susan_skonetski@hotmail.com> schreef in bericht
news:857e9e41.0306300930.3b056994@posting.google.com...
> From: Gorham, Mark
> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 1:26 PM
> To: Skonetski, Susan; Schimel, Lin
> Subject: FW: VMS V8.0, first release on Itanium, ships today!!!
>
> I am very pleased to be able to announce HP OpenVMS for Integrity
> Systems V8.0 has been shipped to 10 evaluation customers today, June
> 30, 2003. This is the result of 24 months of work by a creative and
> dedicated team of engineers. Today you probably also heard about the
> great new Itanium-based systems from HP, with a new brand name of HP
> Integrity Servers. These include for the first time Superdome systems
> - up to 64 CPUs per server shipping in August!
>
> For our first release, we intended to ship a lightweight OS, two
> network stacks, and some cross compilers and development tools to
> allow our key horizontal ISVs to start moving their applications to
> Itanium. We have greatly exceeded this in 8.0, adding clustering (we
> even have mixed architecture Alpha/Integrity clustering!!!), SMP
> (symmetric multi processing), DFS, XFC (extended file cache), Ramdisk,
> and ZIP/UNZIP. Stability is much better than expected, and we have
> already established with one customer's application a proof point for
> recompile/relink application portability between Alpha and Itanium.
>
> Work with key ISVs starts immediately. Our FastTrack program will use
> our lab and central engineering resources to accelerate ISV adoption.
>
> We are on track to ship V8.1 in December of this year, and to ship
> V8.2, our first production-quality release of OpenVMS on Itanium
> systems, in H2 2004.
>
> If you have any questions on what we're doing with VMS, please send me
> mail or check out our web site at <http://h71000.www7.hp.com/>.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Mark
>
> Mark Gorham Vice President OpenVMS Systems Group Hewlett-Packard
> Corporation
> email: mark.gorham@hp.com phone: 603-884-0118
> admin: Susan Christie phone: 603-884-0100 email:
> susan.christie@hp.com
>
>
> VMS V8.0 includes
>
>
> ü Base O/S (includes RMS, XQP, Image Activator, ...)
> ü Utilities (BACKUP, BAD, COPY, CLI, DCL, DIR, MAIL, UTIL32, EDT, ...)
> ü (i2000), rx2600 support
> ü LAN support (Intel 8255x 10/100, Broadcom 5701 10/100/1000)
> ü SCSI Storage (U160, U320)
> ü FDDI support
> * ODS-5 support
> ü IPC
> ü Monitor
> ü RMS Convert and FDLSHR
> * Dual CPU support
> ü INSTAL/PRIV
> * Clusters (Initial support including mixed architecture clusters)
> ü DECnet Phase IV (SET Host, Copy, ...)
> ü TCP/IP (FTP client and server, Telnet client and server, sockets,
> QIO interface, NET, ...)
> ü LAT
> * DFS
> Development Tools:
> ü Cross Linker
> ü Cross Librarian
> ü Cross Message Compiler
> ü Cross and Native Command Definition Utility
> ü CHECKSUM
> ü LIBRTL, CRTL, MATHRTL, CVT
> ü XDELTA
> ü Cross and Native SDA (System crash, process crash)
> ü Bugcheck
> ü DECset (DTM, CMS, MMS, TPU, LSE)
> ü DEBUG (Initial support)
> * ZIP/UNZIP
> Cross Compilers and Related Components:
> ü BLISS 32/64
> ü C
> ü IMACRO
> ü Fortran
> ü C++ less template library (Initially for internal use only)
> ü Cross Assembler
> ü LIBOTS
> * SORT32
> * LIBOTS2
> * Cobol RTL
> Security:
> ü Base security (Except ACME and Security Server)
> ü Security System Services
> ü LOGINOUT
> ü Authorize
> ü SET/SHOW Security
> ü Audit Server and Analyze/Audit
> ü Encryption for OpenVMS
> ü Accounting
> OTHER
> ü DECthreads
> ü DDTM
> ü DECwindows Client
> * XFC
> * Ramdisk (available for internal use only)
> ü PCSI
> ü VMSINSTAL

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