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

[John Reagan]

"Snowshoe" <no at spam.please> wrote in message 
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> 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)

Thinking of PRISM?