[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[Marc Van Dyck]

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.

Rather than porting the entire operating system, would it not be
much more efficient to just port HPVM to X86, and then let OVMS
and HPUX run on top of that ? Once the Odyssey project will give
its first results, will we have a robust enough environment to
propose it in combination with HPVM ported to X86 to replace the
Itanium hardware ?

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Marc Van Dyck