[Info-vax] Over 70 x rx2800 in stock right now October 7 2021

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/18/2021 5:30 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2021-10-18 kl. 01:21, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
>> On 10/17/2021 5:34 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> Yes, OK. Anyway, we would still need to "port" from Alpha to IA64
> to be able to cross compile for x86.

No.

You would need to copy the source code from Alpha to Itanium
to build and you would need to copy the the result from
Itanium to x86-64, but you do not need to build for Itanium and
the code does not need to work on Itanium.

>                                     Question is if it would be better
> to simply wait for the native compilers...

That must depend a lot on your timeline.

If you want to wait maybe 3 years migrating to x86-64 then
waiting for native compilers must be fine.

Do you want to migrate as soon as possible then
cross compilers could give you many months of head
start.

In general with such projects I would prefer to
start early to be able to assess risks and potential
problems. Or lack of those!

Arne