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

[Arne Vajhøj]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>                           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!
> 
> 
> And still it was ported to Alpha and IA64 and while you might say
> that the Alpha was designed with at least the knowledge of VMS, IA64
> definitely was not.

Yup.

>> I'm sure that the Alpha architecture was designed with the intention of 
>> supporting both VMS and Unix.  
> 
> A real big assumption.  I, personally, doubt the hardware engineers
> who designed Alpha had anything but a user level knowledge of VMS.

Considering the support for VAX float, VMS PALCode etc. then that
does not sound likely.

Arne