[Info-vax] VSI licencing policy (again), was: Re: VSI has a new CEO

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Friday, August 6, 2021 at 12:21:32 AM UTC+12, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-08-05, calliet gérard <gerard.... at pia-sofer.fr> wrote: 
> 
>> The only message from VSI 
>> had been since that "you'll have x86"... and the x86 horizon walked away 
>> each year.
> >
> I know VMS isn't really portable (at least not in the modern sense of 
> the word), but 7 years (and counting) is still a lot of time for a port.

This just reinforces my impression that proprietary software is very hard to make portable. Windows NT was supposedly designed from the beginning to be portable across more than just x86, and look at what a failure that was.

I suggested on one of VSI’s YouTube videos that they rearchitect VMS on top of a Linux kernel. That should simplify the job immensely, since Linux already runs on essentially every major processor architecture still in existence.