[Info-vax] "x86 has only a few years left in the market place"

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-05-16 19:21:48 +0000, Dave Froble said:

> On 5/12/2018 2:35 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
>> On Saturday, May 12, 2018 at 11:27:18 AM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>> 
>>> It's too expensive and too high-end
>> 
>> When it comes to throughput there is no such thing as too much or too high end.
> 
> Very true.  When needed, price becomes secondary.  Just might not be 
> too many "needed".

Wasn't a whole lot of call for too much and too high-end with OpenVMS, 
based on the last decade or two...  OpenVMS was never qualified nor 
supported for Integrity Itanium high-end Superdome SD2 systems, and the 
HP-VM support for OpenVMS as a guest under HP-UX on previous-generation 
high-end SD1 faded away long ago.  And Integrity Superdome SD2 isn't 
all that high end, by present standards.  The most recent Integrity 
boxes and various of the HPE Apollo series are larger and more capable 
than Superdome SD2, and various models are based on x86-64.  The 
latest-generation Superdome is Superdome X and that too is x86-64 
based, just to keep product naming confusing for the unwary.  Which 
means it's conceivable that OpenVMS could boot on Apollo or SDX, though 
I doubt VSI has any plans to qualify those particularly soon.   
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/servers/apollo.html




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