[Info-vax] Internationalization

[Dave Froble]

On 12/30/2018 8:25 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

For a short time, yes, but not for long.

>> 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.

VSI has already addressed this, with Versions 8.4 2L1 and 2L2.  These 
are VSI releases, not HP releases, which takes HP(e) out of the picture. 
  While they may have on on going releases, they have already addressed 
the need to have their own release.  Short term, this is good.  Long 
term, after the port is completed, the goal will be to have everyone 
possible on x86 systems.

And yes, there may be those stuck on Alpha.

> 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 ?

There isn't, as far as I can see, a good reason to do so.

But, what do I know ??????

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