[Info-vax] 1 year.

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-08-08 19:54:35 +0000, already5chosen at yahoo.com said:

> Yes, more or less. Except that AEST appears to be a static translator,

Incremental translation and instruction emulation are necessarily 
performed.  Details are in the previously-linked documentation.

Using application translation for the environment that IanD has 
described is likely more expensive, with no improvements in their 
current results and quite possibly with a reductions in stability or 
availability or maintainability.   It's unclear why emulation would be 
acceptable to responsible managers here, either.  Particularly given it 
hasn't already been deemed acceptable some time over the past decade or 
so.

This particular translation case also involves moving to a platform 
where Kittson as the last Itanium processor being discussed for OpenVMS 
itself, and where VSI has already picked the follow-on architecture 
with OpenVMS porting to x86-64.

Management wants to migrate and has a replacement environment and wants 
this particular environment gone, so — in the absence of a viable 
financial justification to the contrary, and quite possibly even with 
such a justification — that's the target here.   Build a financial case 
to stay with OpenVMS.  Or get going on the migration.


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