[Info-vax] OpenVMS development tooling

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/28/2021 8:53 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at 12:46:26 PM UTC+13, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Except for the x86 to x86-64 port they were not commercially successful ...
> 
> Wonder why, when several of those architectures did go on to be commercially successful,
> the proprietary OS failed to follow, but the open-source one did?

Besides the realities pointed out by David Goodwin, then it is worth
noting that there is a difference between voluntary work and commercial
work.

Linux run on a lot of architectures.

But if if you look at what Redhat and other commercial Linux vendors
support then it is way fewer.

Simply because Redhat just like Microsoft run a business and do not
want to spend money on something where there is no demand.

Arne