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

[Arne Vajhøj]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> 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!
> 
> I'm sure that the Alpha architecture was designed with the intention of 
> supporting both VMS and Unix.  The 80X86 architecture was designed for a 
> micro-computer/personal-computer that would run PC-DOS/MS-DOS.

I64 was not designed for VMS and they still managed to get it working.

>                                    It will not run VMS as we know it!

If DCL and all the API's work like they always have then it will
be VMS for the users. The users does not really care about the
various workarounds that may have been necessary deep insider
scheduler/memory management/IO to get things working.

Arne