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

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In article <jblglg$v61$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>, "Robert A. Brooks" <rab at aitchpee.com> writes:
>On 12/5/2011 1:38 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
>> On Dec 3, 8:23 am, Neil Rieck<n.ri... at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>
>Simply not true, unless your definition of "worked on it" was overly
>flexible to the point of being without credibility.  There was never any 
>project to port VMS to X86, skunkworks or otherwise.
>
>Did anyone ever mull over the possibility?  Possibly, but that talk 
>wouldn't have ever gone past the "watercooler" stage, as opposed to
>a set of engineers tasked with a formal investigation.
>
>Don't believe me?  Fine, that's your choice, but I'm in a position to do 
>a bit more digging for information than anyone outside of HP could.

I'd take the word of a former VMS engineer over the ramblings of a
seasoned geek.  ;)

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