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Regarding the current vmdk instance and the list of compilers, I have gathered your concerns and comments and have brought them to the attention of the management team for review.

whcox53 wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:06 pm

Well, that is disappointing to say the least. No Basic, Cobol, Pascal, Bliss, or X86 Assembler.

Pascal is there and works out of the box. I've been compiling programs I did on Turbo Pascal for MS-DOS when I was a student with no issues.

Also, Perl is there too ready to be used. Look at VMS$COMMON.PERL-5_34. Python 3.10 can be very easily installed (even for a totally openVMS newbie like myself). I believe PHP can also be installed in the same way, though I haven't tried it yet

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mister.moderator wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 09, 2024 3:27 am

Regarding the current vmdk instance and the list of compilers, I have gathered your concerns and comments and have brought them to the attention of the management team for review.

Thanks a lot for taking the feedback.

I personally would also like to have access to DECforms.

Given that the plan is to produce one VMDK for all the hobbyists, it seems like the easiest way to do that is just install all the products. Someone will want whatever is left off.