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

[Mike Rechtman]

On 25/08/10 14:18, Neil Rieck wrote:
> 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

Just take care avoiding alignment faults!

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