[Info-vax] OpenVMS in a virtual machine?

[Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER]

In article <001052a2$0$8938$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>Wilm Boerhout wrote:
>
>>>    In addition to a virtual machine that is an emulation of the hardware
>>>    that VMS runs on, there is also the market-speak meaning of virtual
>>>    machine.  VMS runs in an HP-UX based VM on IA64.
>> 
>> Does it now? Or is it still a promise that it will one day. 
>
>VMS 8.4 is to have support for this. It is close to being hatched to
>customers from what I have been told.

No. Fieldtest for VMS 8.4 was recently delayed until end of year (!), so
I don't expect to see a final V8.4 before 2010H1. So much for the promise
of 12-18mon between every major VMS version (IIRC Nemo was mid 2006)...

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Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTÖGER
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