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

[Michael Kraemer]

JF Mezei schrieb:

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

VMS's growth chances do not depend much on the CPU.
"All the world is a VAX" did not save it back then.
Running on the highest clocked CPU did not help to grow it either.

> Moving VMS to 8086 doesn't garantee success. But it would show HP is
> committed to VMS.

It might well be that the mere existence of VMS is committment enough,
in HP's view.
They could have killed it just like MPE/ix.

> And *IF* HP got interested in promoting and marketing
> VMS, then it would have a chance to grow.

HP has made it quite clear that this would depend on
customer demand beyond the existing base.
No demand, no growth.