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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <e+NxVUzgCju0 at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>> 
>> 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.

Especially if you stop thinking about SIMH on Windows, DOS or Linux as
anything but an HAL.

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

Porting to the x86 architecture and the 64bit version in particular has
never been about architectural needs it is about management desires.

bill
 

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