[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[Neil Rieck]

Translation:

If OpenVMS is not ported to x86-64 then OpenVMS is toast!
If NonStop is not ported to x86-64 then NonStop is toast!
If HP-UX is not ported to x86-64 then HP-UX is toast!
If HP doesn't get back its technical talent to do these ports, HP will
be toast!

p.s. Here is a laugh from Wikipedia: Tandem was then (1998) midway in
porting its NonStop product line from MIPS R12000 microprocessors to
Intel's new Itanium Merced microprocessors. This project was restarted
with Alpha as the new target to align NonStop with Compaq's other
large server lines. But in 2001, Compaq terminated all Alpha
engineering investments in favor of the unproven Itanium
microprocessors. The Alpha version of NonStop died before shipping. So
the NonStop migration project was restarted yet again, targeting
Itanium McKinley.

Neil Rieck
Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/