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

[Main, Kerry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com]
> On Behalf Of Mike Rechtman
> Sent: August-25-10 9:20 AM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Out with Hurd, in with OpenVMS
> 
> 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!
> 
> --

Which is true and applicable of a port to any platform - including X86.

Google "alignment faults port"

And to Neil's point - a large lottery vendor stated they only had to spend a few days
with their OpenVMS Alpha to Integrity port. 

Of course, given the critical nature of their App, they spent a lot more time in testing
and QA.


Regards,

Kerry Main
Senior Consultant
HP Services Canada
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