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

[superseth369 at gmail.com]

On Monday, May 20, 2019 at 7:04:42 AM UTC-4, 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.

congratulations. I knew it could be done. Now if only they would port 
TCPware and Purveyor, that would be the ultimate web platform. :)