[Info-vax] Out with Hurd, in with OpenVMS

[Neil Rieck]

On Aug 23, 9:55 am, m.krae... at gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) wrote:
> In article <HHN6QKzLk... at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
>
> koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>
> >    The move to UNIX came at great pain when UNIX was running on RISC,
> >    making VMS on VAX not price/performance competitive.  The move
> >    from VAX to Alpha came after all those customers underwent all that
> >    pain,
>
> It wasn't a pain, it was a relief.
>
On a related note, moving OpenVMS from VAX to Alpha was child's play
(we own our own source code) so I can only assume that moving to
Itanium will be even easier.

Neil Rieck
Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/alpha_diary.html