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

[Michael Moroney]

Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:

>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 ?

A certain TECO fan is looking at adapting a freeware port of TECO rather than
trying to wrestle with the original VAX Macro code or a translated image,
as I understand it.