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[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-10-18 kl. 01:21, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
> On 10/17/2021 5:34 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2021-10-17 kl. 23:03, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
>>> On 10/17/2021 3:42 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>> On 2021-10-17, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>>> Note that I started this subtopic for one very specific
>>>>> case: Itanium systems to host cross-compilers for VMS x86-64.
>>>>> Getting as much stuff available for VMS x86-64 as posisble
>>>>> should be a top priority for VSI.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I know Arne. It's a very real issue and providing cheap testbeds
>>>> to those customers still on Alpha can really help VSI here.
>>>
>>> And it is not necessarily just Alpha.
>>>
>>> Those on Alpha absolutely need an Itanium, because cross
>>> compilers are not available on Alpha.
>>>
>>> But even those on Itanium may want an extra development box
>>> for the VMS x86-64 development.
>>
>> I actually asked the question, if there was any plans to make a IA64
>> system available "on the net" where one could get an account and try out
>> some of ones own sources. And download to the 9.1A kit and try out.
>> This was at one of the x86 webinars this spring (or early summer).
>>
>> I think there was some "lets come back to that" reply from one of the
>> VSI guys, but I have neither heard or seen anything more about that.
>>
>> I *have* done a VMS install one IA64 box many years ago (just for fun)
>> but I'm not sure I'd like to take the time to do a full setup today
>> including the cross compilers...
>>
>> A public system where one could get an account and having the cross
>> compilers already setup could be a good thing.
> 
> For just trying out a few things then a shared system
> with the cross compilers would be great.
> 
> But for more serious ports of software I suspect that
> most companies would prefer their own server within their
> own secure network.
> 
> And it should not be so much work if the boxes was sold
> with VMS and cross-compilers pre-installed.
> 
> Arne
> 

Yes, OK. Anyway, we would still need to "port" from Alpha to IA64
to be able to cross compile for x86. Question is if it would be better
to simply wait for the native compilers...