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

[Chris]

On 12/24/20 15:13, Comp.os.vms wrote:
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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
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>> On 2020-12-23 19:08:15 +0000, John Reagan said:
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>>> On Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 1:54:02 PM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman
>> wrote:
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>>>> 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.
>>>
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> [snip...]
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>> 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/
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> <https://newsroom.ibm.com/2020-08-17-IBM-Reveals-Next-Generation-IBM-POWER10-Processor>
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> 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.
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> Interesting times ..


Indeed, and with Microsoft building their own Arm server
designs for their cloud and Apple ditching X86 for Arm
in their machines, it's not a very big step to see Arm
on the desktop in 2021. Just need a little more critical
mass...

Chris


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