[Info-vax] OpenVMS development tooling

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Thu Sep 30 21:47:28 EDT 2021


On 9/30/2021 9:38 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 8:13:12 PM UTC+13, dgso... at gmail.com wrote:
>> Where can I buy a modern affordable PowerPC desktop computer with
>> similar performance to current generation Intel gear?
> 
> I don’t think “PowerPC” exists as a separate brand any more: it’s all “POWER” now.
> 
> And a few minutes’ searching was enough to reveal such as these:

Did you read them?

> http://www.tyan.com/EN/solution/openpower

Servers not desktops.

> https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/

There are desktop systems here.

But I will not call them affordable. Prices vary from 4765 to 6825.
And that is before upgrades!

> https://www.tomshardware.com/news/libre-soc-releases-first-non-ibm-openpower-chip-in-decade

Chip not desktop.

Arne






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