[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[Paul Sture]

On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 08:25:14 -0700, seasoned_geek wrote:

> On Mar 21, 2:53 pm, John Wallace <johnwalla... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> The increasing use of HYPErvisors on AMD64 and elsewhere may make IT
>> people increasingly conscious of things like unauthorised privilege
>> escalation and information leakage. Or may not.
> 
> Still, one would want to port to an AMD CPU not a CPU from has been chip
> maker Intel.  The AMD quad cores rock and are already 128-bit.
> 
> Itanic was simply HP and Intel trying to force VMS users to pay for
> their multi-million (multi-billion?) dollar boondoggle.
> 
> I still expect 2 things to happen.
> 
> 1)  HP to make yet another appearance before yet another Congressional
> committee.
> 2)  HP being forced into either the Open Source release or (more likely)
> the sale of OpenVMS.  I'm 80% certain the buyer will come from China if
> the platform is sold.


You might want to consider this:

<http://tinyurl.com/3thwyvm>

'In China, business travelers take extreme precautions to avoid cyber-
espionage

...

Though no country was named, "it was really directed at countries like 
China and Russia," Brenner said in a recent interview.

He based his 2008 warning on cases in which Chinese malware was remotely 
inserted into cellphones; the malware then infected computer servers in 
the United States. He said the networks in every major hotel are 
monitored by Chinese security agencies.'


-- 
Paul Sture