[Info-vax] OpenVMS.Org quick pool

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-08-18 20:11:25 +0000, David Froble said:

> JF Mezei wrote:
>> 
>> Since IBM has the rights to the translator that Apple used as "Rosetta",
>> I wonder if it might be able to provide better support for VMS (Alpha
>> and/or Itanium) on its AIX/Power platform.
>> 
>> This could give IBM a boost by stealing the BCS customer base and giving
>> them better emulation and performance than what HP could.
>> 
> 
> Still trying to stick the knife between the "H" and the "P", huh ??

The folks at Transitive (acquired by IBM) were pretty good at this 
translation stuff.

<http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/11/ibm-to-buy-transitive/>

Rosetta was a really nice hunk of code, and far more transparent than 
DECmigrate.

FWIW.

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