[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

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In article <snn049-87o.ln1 at news.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul at sture.ch> writes:
>On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:24:47 +0000, JohnF wrote:
>
>> onedbguru <onedbguru at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > 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".
>>> 
>>> Sadly, I am not sure I would be that generous... Even though it still
>>> runs my home web server and offsite backups for a long-time customer
>>> who uses it daily - I am not sure what I will do when their DS10 dies
>>> as it has been running 24x7 since 1999 when it replaced a MVII that ran
>>> for equally as long. The custom app was "migrated" via VEST because the
>>> developer did not appear to keep the entire app source code on the
>>> customer system and subsequently was hit by a bus and there was no good
>>> backup before the old system died - except for the executables and some
>>> of the source code.
>> 
>> Literally hit by a bus??? If ever there was a metaphor...
>
>Hit by a Q-bus, I assume. :-)

or a UNIbus... or a BI bus... or an XMI bus... or a PCI bus...  :)

Back to serious matters...  Try AESTing the VESTed code and then see how it
functions on Itanium.
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