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

[Snowshoe]

On 12/6/2011 2:27 PM, John Reagan wrote:
> "Bob Koehler"<koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org>  wrote in message
> news:MAH0WVbTWlBl at eisner.encompasserve.org...
>> In article<jblglg$v61$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>, "Robert A. Brooks"
>> <rab at aitchpee.com>  writes:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>    Emerald.  White papers have been available on the internet.  Not
>>    quite a port, though.
>>
>>    FreeVMS.  Also not a port.
>>
>
> Neither are from HP&  OpenVMS Engineering.

Wasn't there an Emerald chip project that predated Alpha that was to run 
VMS? (and Alpha wound up using some ideas from Emerald)