[Info-vax] OpenVMS x64 Atom project

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/3/2021 10:45 AM, plugh wrote:
> Apple turned an also-ran Unix into a global desktop & mobile OS.
> Remember when the VAX instruction set was designed for VMS? And yet
> only Apple seems to understand the combination of hardware and
> software is what drives sales. Other than MacOS, I can't think of a
> major OS that's been ported to so many different ISA. It's sad that
> the owners of VMS never understood that sales/engineering dynamic. So
> many Dilbert cartoons, so little time...

I am not sure that I see your point.

Apple exited the server market 10 years ago, because that market
wanted x86-64 and Linux.

Apple is making truckloads of money selling phones with an
OS that deep down has a few Unix things.

So should VSI exit the server OS market, rewrite most of
VMS for phone and start production of phones?

I do not have much faith in that business plan.

Arne