[Info-vax] OpenVMS.Org quick pool

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-08-17 15:05:46 +0000, Keith Parris said:

> On 8/16/2012 1:21 PM, John Wallace wrote:
>> On Aug 16, 2:37 pm, Ian Miller <g... at uk2.net> wrote:
>>> OpenVMS.Org are looking to collect and confirm some information about 
>>> OpenVMS users and usage. Please take a few minutes to complete this 13 
>>> question poll. Your input is 
>>> valuable.http://www.openvms.org/pages.php?page=Quick-Poll
>> 
>> "would you use OpenVMS I64 running on x86 using an Integrity Virtual
>> Machine in a production environment"
>> 
>> ?
>> 
>> If that is intended to read as it is written, then it might be helpful
>> to expand on the concept a bit (a linked page? or is the Wikipedia
>> article sufficient?), for the benefit of those VMS folk who until now
>> have had no interest in what's been available on IA64.
> 
> A number of folks today run OpenVMS VAX under a VAX emulator or OpenVMS 
> Alpha under an Alpha emulator, running on top of an x86 platform.
> 
> I read this question as: Would you be willing to run the Itanium 
> version of OpenVMS under an Itanium emulator (using a hypothetical 
> example of HP VM ported to x86) on top of an x86 platform, and do so 
> for your Production work?


HP can either fix the wording of that question, or HP will receive 
feedback on whatever the end-user thought that acronym soup meant (to 
them), and HP can then apply that data to whatever the HP author(s) 
intended with that question.    What could possibly go wrong?

Keith - from your interpretation - I can't tell if the folks at HP that 
crafted that question understand the difference between an "emulator" 
or "simulator" (e.g. simh) and a "virtual machine" (e.g. HP IVM), or if 
they're mixing that distinction together into a porridge of confusion 
and disappointment.



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