[Info-vax] OpenVMS.Org quick pool

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-08-17 15:31:11 +0000, Keith Parris said:

> On 8/16/2012 1:49 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 
>> Or that there's consideration being given
>> here around an x86-64 port of an Itanium emulator, and this question
>> would be an odd way to pursue/announce/consider that engineering work.
> 
> I suspect this is the most likely option.
> 
> I'm not privy to any plans, but thinking in terms of what's technically 
> possible: Consider what you would have it you took the Ski Itanium CPU 
> emulator (which lacks emulation of any platform hardware) and added 
> enough code from HP VM to provide a platform environment which looks 
> just like HP VM to the VMS instance inside (with the HP VM code 
> adjusted for endian-ness, and to run on Linux instead of HP-UX). No 
> changes would be required in OpenVMS I64 code for it to run inside such 
> an environment.

While it would not surprise me that there were third-party providers 
looking to provide Itanium emulation (and leaving aside all discussions 
of the long-term value of that approach for OpenVMS end-users), I'd 
(still) be skeptical around the value of any data returned from that 
survey question, due to its (confusing) wording.




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