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

[Craig A. Berry]

On 3/14/19 9:07 AM, Rod Regier wrote:
> 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?

Older roadmaps, e.g.

<https://www.vmssoftware.com/pdfs/VSI_Roadmap_20160309.pdf>
<https://vmssoftware.com/pdfs/VSI_Roadmap_20170607.pdf>
<http://www.vmssoftware.com/pdfs/VSI_Roadmap_20171215.pdf>

had something called a "Dynamic Binary Translator" slated for OpenVMS
v9.0, or, on that last one, v9.1.   It sounded more like Apple's Rosetta
than like VEST/AEST. There is no mention of it in roadmaps from 2018 or
later.  Whether it's something they hope to get back to after the port
you'd need to ask VSI directly.

People on Alpha can already get current releases from VSI and run under
emulation.  People running on Itanium would mostly be people who know
how to hang on to their source code as I doubt Itanium ever attracted a
significant number of new customers to VMS who have already lost their
source code.  People who ported from Alpha to Itanium and depended on
AEST to do so have a special problem.  Is that your problem?