[Info-vax] OT: IBM Offering $9-10 Per Share for Sun

[Christopher]

On Apr 6, 12:01 am, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
wrote:
> JF Mezei wrote:
> > Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>
> >> I can not see why the VMS engineers would do that.
>
> > Because they love their work ?
>
> > Why did some engineers design the DS10L out of a midnight hack ? Once it
> > was done, Compaq liked it and sold tousands of them in high profile uses
> > (genome project).
>
> > Also, consider the highly theoretical/speculative scenario when VMS
> > engineers learned that VMS was to be canned with IA64 and that the date
> > was coming soon. Consider that high end folks at HP were heard saying a
> > VMS port to 8086 was not possible or too expensive (excuse).
>
> Did you ever consider that, just maybe, it's NOT feasible to port VMS to
> an 80x86 architecture?  Recall that VMS and the VAX architecture were
> designed together and that decisions were made regarding what would be
> done in software and what would be done in hardware!

That is just silly.  VMS will run on ANY Turing-complete
architecture.  It may run better on certain archs than others, but
there is nothing so special about VMS that it can't be made to run on
x64 platforms.