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

[John Reagan]

"JKB" <jkb at koenigsberg.invalid> wrote in message 
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> 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

Yes.  Already discussed.  It was on VAX, not x86.

John