[Info-vax] Unix on A DEC Vax?

[Howard S Shubs]

In article <kda3ji$9a0$1 at dont-email.me>,
 Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:

> As for the emulation market, the folks that are choosing emulation will 
> likely continue to use it until the application(s) age out, or the 
> management involved ages out, or the organization gets clobbered by 
> competition.  But those folks are probably not going to be doing very 
> much with the applications running under emulation, as that's usually 
> viewed as a dead-end for new investments, even within the organizations.
> 
> Hardware emulation is computing's version of the cover band.  Sometimes 
> fun.  Variously useful.  But not really what most folks want.

Perhaps not, but sometimes it's all you can have.  Such as when the 
software manufacturer has gone defunct, or might as well have (VMS port 
to x86, anyone?).  Unless someone can get HP to release source code.

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