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

[Rich Jordan]

On Aug 25, 6:18 am, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> 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

We had almost no issues moving ancient BASIC and small Macro code to
Alpha.  The move to I64 made us rewrite the last of the old Macro code
into BASIC; I don't recall the specific problem now but the macro
compiler could not handle some of the old crusty code.  No other
issues, and overall the one we encountered was minor.