[Info-vax] rx2800i2 sales/support window changes

[David Froble]

Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Bob Koehler wrote 2014-02-13 15:22:
>> In article <52fc524c$0$49307$c3e8da3$c8b7d2e6 at news.astraweb.com>, JF 
>> Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>>> On 14-02-12 21:44, johnson.eric at gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> Any organization that is still heavily reliant on VMS will find 
>>>> porting off of it to be an incredibly demanding project.
>>>
>>>
>>> If HP has no plans for an IA64 emulator on Linux, then those shops who
>>> are "stuck" on VMS should consider instead moving from IA64 to Alpha
>>> VMS, at which point they can move to an emulated instance on x86 servers
>>> for those applications that are not portable to Linux natively.
>>
>>     Why worry about HP's emulator plans.  I can't think of one VAX or
>>     Alpha emulator in use that came out of HP.
>>
> 
> VMS will not be more supported on an emulator, so
> you win little by degrading from IA64 to Alpha.
> 
> If you plan to run un-supported after 2025, you can
> just as well run it on real (self-supported) hardware.
> 
> 

This brings up an interesting recent occurance.

Happens I've been ASS-U-ME ing again.  Horrible thing to do.

Was talking to one of the other people at Consolidated Data, and 
mentioned emulators for VAX and Alpha.  Emulators?  What's that?

I had assumed that just everybody knew about SimH, Charon, and such. 
Not so.  Bill is a curious guy.  I may not be able to get his attention 
for weeks, now that he has something new to him to explore.