[Info-vax] OpenVMS.Org quick pool

[Bob Koehler]

In article <k0lo3u$guc$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>, Keith Parris <keithparris_deletethis at yahoo.com> writes:

> No changes would 
> be required in OpenVMS I64 code for it to run inside such an environment.

   And no performance would be achieved.  x86 isn't yet fast enough and
   IA64 isn't slow enough for x86 to emulate IA64 at near IA64 hardware
   speeds.

   Like emulating VAXen on modern chips, it could get there, some day.
   But if someone had decided to keep making VAXen, I suspect they'd
   be using modern processes and clock speeds, and VAX emulators wouldn't
   be running on chips with so much advantage that the emulation beats
   hardware speed.

   In the intervening years, Alpha was one hot chip, and IA64 wasn't
   bad.  Where would IA64 customers go in the meantime for VMS at
   competitive performance?