[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[JF Mezei]

Neil Rieck wrote:

> If I were HP, I'd have the skunk-works in India working on an x86 port
> right now.

Thyey tried this a few years ago but those skunkworks which also
involved HP-UX were killed because moving HP=UX to x86 would be too much
of an effort.

With regards to running VMS in emulation. VAX-VMS is over 10 years old
at 7.3. Not developped anymore. And Alpha/IA64 is barely being
maintained/developped anymore. About the only commitment from HP is to
make it run on the upcoming Poulson and Kittson platforms.

So even if you can continue to run VMS on emulated environments, you are
still limited to whatever VMS version and software are available.