[Info-vax] OpenVMS.Org quick pool

[Paul Sture]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:40:39 -0500, Bob Koehler wrote:

> In article <k0otgd$tju$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble
> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> 
>> A good question is, "is an emulated Alpha surperior to an emulated
>> VAX?", all else being equal?  I'd be interested to know.
> 
>    Only in that DEC made the stupid decision to split the source pool
>    when they went from VAX to Alpha, so many features were never ported
>    back to VAXen, and there are some that require 64 bit.

I would call it unfortunate rather than stupid.  I am sure there were 
corners of code best left behind in getting a port out on time and on 
budget.

-- 
Paul Sture