POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Plans for 1999 (A word from our Sponsers) : Re: Plans for 1999 (A word from our Sponsers) Server Time
13 Aug 2024 03:16:36 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Plans for 1999 (A word from our Sponsers)  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 6 Jan 1999 12:03:44
Message: <36939770.0@news.povray.org>
On Tue, 05 Jan 1999 20:02:44 +0100, minus <MIN### [at] ctrl-cliuse> wrote:
>Ronald L. Parker wrote:
>> I think perhaps VMS doesn't support dynamic linking, though
>> I suspect there's no longer an official VMS version (if there ever
>> was.)
>As the creature working on a povray 3.1 port to OpenVMS I think I can 
>say that VMS isn't dead (yet). Around summer version 7.2 of VMS vill
>enter the market. (there is even talk about FreeVMS, well, mostly talk)

No slight intended; I meant that I didn't think there was an official
version of POV for VMS.  Since you're working on a port, I guess that's 
true.  Still, even without an official VMS port, there's no reason we 
should ignore that platform, or lots of other platforms people still 
use.


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.