[Info-vax] x86 Update 4/22/19

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-04-26, Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org> wrote:
> In article <f14bdf25-8a50-4425-877f-805b50483850 at googlegroups.com>, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I've already suggested replacing those with perl or something.  None of the transformations are complicated.
>
>    perl is cute, and it would be nice to have as part of base VMS.
>
>    But leave TECO alone, and leave it's uses alone, so well know we have
>    TECO.
>

But is continuing with TECO in its current state viable ?

TECO on Alpha appears to be a translated image (whether partially
or fully I don't know).

Itanium is also a translated image as I understand it and wasn't
it translated from the translated for Alpha TECO ?

What will be the basis for x86-64 TECO ? Will it be built from
source or will it also be translated from Alpha ?

Didn't someone complain about the instability of TECO on Itanium
due to these multiple levels of translation ?

Will x86-64 TECO suffer from the same problems ?

Simon.

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