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

[JKB]

Le Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:58:32 -0500,
Robert A. Brooks <rab at aitchpee.com> écrivait :
> 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.

	A very long time ago, there was a VMS over Mach microkernel port...

	JKB

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