[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <slrnjr1mq4.1nb.jkb at rayleigh.systella.fr>, JKB
<jkb at koenigsberg.invalid> writes: 

> 	Maybe. But alpha is dead and IA64 has no future. If you want use
> 	OpenVMS in next years, you only have two choices :
> 	- opensourcing OpenVMS (why not, but I'm not sure that HP shall give
> 	  OpenVMS sources without restrictions) ;

HP certainly won't, and a big advantage of VMS---its uniform
design---will probably be lost since not all coders will have the 
knowledge/time/resources to follow it.

> 	- waiting for OpenVMS on amd64 (I'm not sure that HP want to port
> 	  VMS).

I would be surprised, but not overly so, if this happens.

> 	Thirsd solution : trying to write your own version.

Not practical.

Fourth solution: Continue to use what you've got.