[Info-vax] Running OpenVMS native on x86 . . .

[seasoned_geek]

On Dec 3, 8:23 am, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On Dec 3, 9:17 am, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> > In the words of "The Champ", "HP head faked me and I went for it"
>
> > :-)
>
> > Running OpenVMS native on x86 . . .
> > . . . without rewriting OpenVMS
>
> >http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA3-7823ENW.pdffromhttp://h...
>
> > NSR
>
> p.s. I'm not knocking this product. It's just that for 1uS I thought
> HP might have already done a skunk-works port of OpenVMS to x86-64.
>
> NSR

According to a lot of people, they did.  At least people who claimed
to have worked on it before they were summarily purged from the
company in favor of closer ties to al-Qaeda.

AMD has much better CPUs to be porting to than Intel though.