[Info-vax] VMS Software needs to port VAX DIBOL to OpenVMS X86 platform

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Stephen
> Hoffman via Info-vax
> Sent: December-23-20 4:14 PM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Cc: Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid>
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] VMS Software needs to port VAX DIBOL to OpenVMS
> X86 platform
> 
> On 2020-12-23 19:08:15 +0000, John Reagan said:
> 
> > On Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 1:54:02 PM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman
> wrote:
> >
> >> expectations and the current market for operating systems. And VSI
> >> doesn't have MICA source code, and anybody that does have that source
> >> code is unlikely to share it.
> >

[snip...]

> 
> And once all that's well along, y'all will prolly be busy porting to the
> descendants of this Arm server:
> https://www.servethehome.com/ampere-altra-wiwynn-mt-jade-server-
> review-the-most-significant-arm-server/
> 
> 

Well, its an age-old discussion, but if there ever was a vote for what VSI platform comes next after X86-64, my vote would be the Power10+ architecture - not ARM.

One big differentiator I believe for both existing and new OpenVMS Customers would be the huge level of HW based security encryption built into the architecture.  

<https://newsroom.ibm.com/2020-08-17-IBM-Reveals-Next-Generation-IBM-POWER10-Processor>

Another feature would be next gen large memory support.
<https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/09/03/the-memory-area-network-at-the-heart-of-ibms-power10/>
Note - as one reads this last article, remember that the IBM Sysplex cluster architecture is very similar to the OpenVMS active-active, shared disk cluster architecture.

Interesting times ..

😊

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com



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