[Info-vax] OpenVMS development tooling

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/29/2021 3:09 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at 4:40:09 PM UTC+13, Dave Froble wrote:
>> What is the definition of "commercially successful" ??
> 
> Does “in business for 20 years” count?
> 
> I’m talking about SPARC. I even remember a comment from Larry McVoy about how Linux was able to run more efficiently on Sun’s own hardware than Sun’s own software.

SPARC was a huge success in the late 90's and early 00's.

Now it is just a few years behind Itanium on the way to the grave.

> Yet Windows NT on that was a complete nonstarter.

MS never attempted to port to SPARC.

Intergraph announced that they would but never delivered anything.

Arne