[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 3/19/2012 10:20 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
> Was thinking about the Oracle allegations against HP.
>
> HP did have plans to port HP-UX to x86 and started the work.
> And I have been told that porting of VMS to x86 had also been started.
>
> Neither of which would have been official projects since they couldn't
> appear in any books since HP wanted very much to hide the fact that
> IA64'S EOL was aready planned.
>
>
> At some point, HP decided to not port to x86.
>
> Then, VMS experienced engineering team is fired and replaced by newbie
> programmers given 2 weeks of training.
>
> Looks to me that once HP decided to end of line its proprietary OS at
> same time as IA64, there was no point in keeping the experienced
> engineering teams since they wouldn't be needed for the port.
>
> I fear it may be too late to save VMS.

VMS has been dead, in some sense, for about thirteen years now!

I still have a couple of systems running VMS and I'll hang on to them.
I don't know that I'll DO anything with them, there seems to be very
little demand!

Face it.  If VMS is not dead, it's on "life support".