[Info-vax] OpenVMS.Org quick pool

[David Froble]

Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 17:34 -0400, David Froble wrote:
> 
>> You bet.  It's an interesting question how fast an N-VAX or descendant
>> processor would run at 35 nm. 
> 
> No one makes Alpha chips any more, so it would be far more interesting
> to see how well these could work at the 32 nm process node. VAXs are
> strictly 32 bit architecture. 

I fail to understand what 32 bit or 64 bit has to do with speculation of what a 
past architecture might do with a modern process size ?

Yes, Alpha might be good too, but that wasn't the question.