[Info-vax] VMS Software Inc. OpenVMS 8.4-1H1 Boots on i4 System

Tue Mar 17 07:21:56 EDT 2015

On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 10:04:37 AM UTC-4, Bob Gezelter wrote:
> On Friday, March 13, 2014, the Engineering Team at VMS Software booted a built from scratch OpenVMS 8.4-1H1 DVD on an i4 system.
> 
> - Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com

Congrats to VSI. For whatever reason, HP stopped efforts to qualify OpenVMS on Itanium i4 (their flagship processor mind-you!) in 2012. Slightly less than 3-years later, VSI picked up the ball and ran it down the field. Kudos to VSI.

Neil Rieck 
Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge, 
Ontario, Canada. 
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/ 