[Info-vax] OT: Intel Demos 48-Core Prototype Chip

[JF Mezei]

Michael Kraemer wrote:

> OS/2 ran on x86, (the remains still do), did it help?
> BeOS was cool when it ran on its own PPC BeBoxes,
> in which way did it help to port to x86?


VMS is little chance to grow on IA64. And when IA64 goes, do does VMS.

Moving VMS to 8086 doesn't garantee success. But it would show HP is
committed to VMS. And *IF* HP got interested in promoting and marketing
VMS, then it would have a chance to grow.

However, it is possible that VMS has shrunk to a point of no return and
it would take just too much to re-animate the comatosed patient.

When HP inherited, the HP apologists said that HP was waiting for VMS to
run on IA64 before it starts to promote it. Well, VMS has been on IA64
for many years now, and the marketing never came.