[Info-vax] VMS has booted on x86!!!!!!

[already5chosen at yahoo.com]

On Friday, May 24, 2019 at 8:53:58 AM UTC+3, Jim Causey wrote:
> On Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 8:11:39 AM UTC-7, Richard Maher wrote:
> > On 20/05/2019 7:04 pm, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VMS Software, Inc. Announces First Boot on x86
> > > Architecture Significant step towards VSI's new OpenVMS x86 product
> > > Bolton, MA USA, May 20, 2019
> > > 
> > > VMS Software Inc. (VSI) is pleased to announce OpenVMS First Boot on the
> > > x86 architecture.  This important achievement is a major step towards
> > > giving OpenVMS users the ability to operate on modern x86 hardware or in
> > > the Cloud.  `It has been a long journey to get here and we will now be
> > > moving rapidly to the V9.0 Early Developer Kit and then to full system
> > > operation' said Clair Grant, VSI's CTO.
> > > 
> > > User applications, with extremely few exceptions, will compile, link,
> > > and run on x86 systems without modification.
> > > 
> > 
> > Really fantastic news! Congratulations and much thanks to the VSI team 
> > for their talents and perseverance!
> > 
> > To appreciate how far VSI have come I just ask all to consider where VMS 
> > was 2 years ago compare to today.
> > 
> > Well done all!
> 
> What an incredible achievement.  I hope all of the folks at VSI are incredibly proud of what they've accomplished so far!!

Just to get a feeling about orders of magnitude, how many times fewer man-years spent on x86 port vs previous ports?