[Info-vax] VSI plans to offer an IA64 to X86 binary translator similar to AEST?

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 3/14/2019 10:54 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2019-03-14 kl. 15:07, skrev Rod Regier:
> 
>> Has VSI indicated any plans to offer on OpenVMS IA64 to X86 translater
>> application similar to the Alpha to IA64 translator (AEST)?
>>
>> (I would include a link to the AEST/OMSAIS SPD here but HPE horribly
>> bunged up links to useful stuff like that in Jan/2019).
>>
>> Or is the VSI "party line" that full recompilation plus linking is the
>> only intended supported migration path for VMS/X86 for applications
>> starting with complete sources?
>>
> 
> I *think* I have heard something about that on some customer event.
> 
> And don't forget an Alpha to x86 translator. Not everyone is on
> IA64 today... :-)

There will not be an IA64-->X86_64 translator.  The expectation is that customers
running on IA64 will likely have their source.

There is a plan for an Alpha-->X86_64 translator.


-- 

                      -- Rob