[Info-vax] VMS on a PC

[David J Dachtera]

"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,

Depends how you define "a standard PC".

> especially with 64-bits being the current norm.

AMD x86-64 or IA64?

> I searched through the archives and found this same question asked a
> decade ago.

The answer has not changed much.
 
> I still find it amazing the M$ has not caught up to where VMS was 25
> years ago.

As Kerry pointed out, the answer depends on a lot factors.

The bottom line is yes, there is an Itanium version in production, but
not for x86-32.

If "Itanium" ever constitutes "a standard PC", then perhaps the answer
might be less ambiguous.

D.J.D.