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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <56als8-amh2.ln1 at news.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul at sture.ch> writes:
> 
> "Fat binaries" were also a feature of Apple's PPC to Intel transition. 
> These contained the binaries for both architectures in a single image and 
> you could produce these with a single build.

   As they were in the 68K - PPC transition.  But DEC ignored user's
   requests for such to deal with a VAX cluster in which some processors
   had vector instructions and some did not.

   Never seemed to be as usefull for Alpha or IA64, but it was a bit of
   a pain to keep straight across vector and non-vector capable VAXen.