[Info-vax] VSI: "Official 8.4-1H1 Launch"

[John Reagan]

On Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 1:00:42 PM UTC-4, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Simon Clubley skrev den 2015-06-06 13:18:
> > On 2015-06-05, johnwallace4 <johnwallace4> wrote:
> >>
> >> Things we now know that we didn't know this time yesterday:
> >> * VMS will indeed (as JES assumed) be the guest under KVM. Makes sense
> >> to me.
> >
> > I wonder what kind of jitter/latency this will cause for real time
> > applications ?
> >
> > Simon.
> >
> 
> I had the same thought, but as I understood Clairs post, they would
> also provide a native (non-VM) VMS port for x86 (?).
> 

Yes.  Both.

> Now, it also depends on the definition of "real time". I do not
> expect to see x86 VMS systems of any sort having dedicated
> communication or DAC/ADC cards or similar. Most of that kind
> of things has moved "down" to PLCs or other embedded systems.

You don't have such on Itanium or Alpha today, do you?

NonStop on x86 doesn't use/need any special hardware.