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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-03-14 kl. 15:58, skrev 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.
> 
> 

Ah, so I was somewhat right then!
Maybe not in the direction that Rod wanted, but anyway. :-)