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

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On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 13:38:01 -0400
David Froble via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

> seasoned_geek wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> What other options are there?  VMS cannot support it's own custom CPUs. 
>   Remember Alpha?  So, what's left?

POWER, SPARC, MIPS, and ARM. First two are both open, last two are both
licensable for cheap per CPU.

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