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

[Bob Koehler]

> 
> 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.

   Turing said nothing about performance.  AS far as Turing is
   considered SIMH running VMS on a x86 is VMS running on an x86.

   But there are no major architectural needs for VMS that x86 doesn't
   already handle.