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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <q9vfr9$i72$1 at dont-email.me>, 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 ?

Similarly, at some point EDT was VESTed or whatever.  But I recall 
someone here saying that he had a new version, removing the 255 and 
65535 limits.