[Info-vax] VMS Software Partners with Stark Gaming to Create Revolutionary Online Gaming and eSport Server Infrastructure

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On Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at 10:11:42 PM UTC-4, IanD wrote:
  
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> It would also be interesting to know if HP actually did any preliminary work in the past on moving >OpenVMS to x86 or whether VSI are indeed working from scratch...
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Not too long after we ported VMS to Itanium I was asked about porting VMS to x86. I gave my estimates of people and time and a general description of what needed to be done. That was the end of the discussion; I never heard another word. A number of us have thought about it for years. But, to my knowledge, no one has ever approached doing it either officially or as a midnight project. Technically, I guess you would say we are starting from scratch but we could have mapped out what to do a decade ago with the only real difference now being a much better compiler strategy. Also, people doing the work now have significant, valuable non-VMS experience with other operating systems and architectures which we did not have 10 years ago.