[Info-vax] Internationalization

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-12-30, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 12/29/2018 4:46 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>
>> VAX, Alpha or Itanium are unlikely to see any work on UTF-8, and
>> certainly not until well after the x86-64 port and a pile or three of
>> other work is completed.
>
> There are no new VAX, Alpha, or itanic chips.  They are DEAD!
>

Unless there's something I am unaware of, you can still buy new
Itanium systems.

> If anyone was to put significant work into any of those three 
> environments, they're probably also asking to be dead.  There is no 
> known (to me) reasons for any such activity.
>

Based on VSI's offerings, there is clearly still a need for supported
Alpha systems. It doesn't matter that the Alphas might be emulated
Alpha systems because it means people are still running Alpha based
code in production.

Of course, it's possible that the systems are effectively frozen
(apart from, say, security patches), but I wonder if anyone is
wanting to run new applications, or to extend existing applications,
on their Alpha systems ?

Simon.

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