[Info-vax] VMS on a PC

[Richard B. Gilbert]

faceman28208 at yahoo.com wrote:
> Having not touched a VMS system since I left DEC, I was wondering if
> HP had yet bothered to create a version of it that would run on a
> standard PC, especially with 64-bits being the current norm.
> 

I don't believe that the X86 architecture is capable of running VMS as 
we know it!  The hardware is just too different.

> I searched through the archives and found this same question asked a
> decade ago.
> 
> I still find it amazing the M$ has not caught up to where VMS was 25
> years ago.

What makes you think that M$ *wants* to be where VMS was 25 years ago?