[Info-vax] OT: news from the trenches (re: Solaris)

[seasoned_geek]

Sadly, putting VMS on x86 will ensure it a market life of minutes, not years. It is a special OS and needs a special kick booty chip. The earlier comments in this thread about Solaris running faster and better on SPARC T5 should provide a guiding light, but it won't. By all accounts Solaris should have been long gone from the market by now, but, a certain segment of the market cannot make do with Wal-mart quality chips so Solaris continues.

VMS also serves a market segment which cannot make do with Wal-mart quality chips. Porting VMS to Wal-mart quality chips ensures its demise. Porting VMS to the Wal-mart quality x86 line is like feeding chocolate to dogs. They beg for it, but for them it is fatal.