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

[Arne Vajhøj]

Christopher wrote:
> 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.

Computer science can prove that.

But it does not have any practical point.

I believe they have a 2 state 3 color Turing machine.

I don't think running VMS on that would work very well.

Arne