[Info-vax] Reimplementing VMS, was: Re: HP adds OpenVMS Mature Product Support beyond the end of Standard Support

JF Mezei jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca
Tue Feb 4 13:51:35 EST 2014


On 14-02-04 11:33, John Reagan wrote:

> For the most part, Itanium models where not interesting to GEM since most of the new instructions along the way were not ones you'd use in normal programs.  And the instruction scheduling model for all the M machines (Madison, McKinley, Montvale, Montecito) is the same.  Even Tukwila is about the same.  There never was a benefit for an /OPT=TUNE=xxx like we have on Alpha.  

Was VMS the only use of GEM, or did HP-UX or NSK also use GEM based
compilers ?






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