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

[Who Else]

On Dec 13, 6:44 pm, Snowshoe <n... at spam.please> wrote:
> On 12/6/2011 2:27 PM, John Reagan wrote:
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> > "Bob Koehler"<koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org>  wrote in message
> >news:MAH0WVbTWlBl at eisner.encompasserve.org...
> >> In article<jblglg$v6... at usenet01.boi.hp.com>, "Robert A. Brooks"
> >> <r... at aitchpee.com>  writes:
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> >>> 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.
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> >>    Emerald.  White papers have been available on the internet.  Not
> >>    quite a port, though.
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> >>    FreeVMS.  Also not a port.
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> > Neither are from HP&  OpenVMS Engineering.
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> Wasn't there an Emerald chip project that predated Alpha that was to run
> VMS? (and Alpha wound up using some ideas from Emerald)- Hide quoted text -
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That was Prism.  IIRC Emerald was the OS for Prism.