[Info-vax] "VSI OpenVMS VAX"

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <h3nonvFhr4qU1 at mid.individual.net>, Hans Bachner
<hans at bachner.priv.at> writes: 

> Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) schrieb am 21.11.2019 um 06:28:
> > In article <qr4g1l$1b9$1 at dont-email.me>,
> > =?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
> > writes:
> > 
> >> Now, it has been said that VSI would never support OpenVMS VAX.
> >> But remember that once that was said for OpenVMS Alpha also.
> > 
> > Getting back to the original conference call, it was said that Alpha and
> > x86 would be supported in the same cluster, at least for migration,
> > which implies SOME sort of Alpha support.
> 
> In the meantime VSI has clarified that in V9 mixed architecture clusters 
> will only work for nodes running some version of VSI OpenVMS.
> 
> Presumably, this is due to changes and improvements (encryption was one 
> of the topics mentioned at that time) in cluster communications which 
> require a patch on pre-V9 systems. VSI can only create patches for VSI 
> OpenVMS versions, not for e.g. HPE OpenVMS V8.4.

Right.  However, this doesn't rule out a hobbyist license for Alpha, 
perhaps only for migration.