[Info-vax] OpenVMS.Org quick pool

[David Froble]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2012-08-21 18:15:25 +0000, Single Stage to Orbit said:
> 
>> On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 13:50 -0400, David Froble wrote:
>>>> 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.
>> 32 bit is limited to a maximum of 4GB. One won't be able to do a lot
>> with that with today's software requirements.
> 
> TKB
> 
> 

Now that's just mean.  I had hoped to never see them letters in that order ever 
again ...

:-)

or maybe

:-(