[Info-vax] OpenVMS development tooling

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Friday, October 1, 2021 at 2:47:36 PM UTC+13, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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?

Maybe more than you did.

>> http://www.tyan.com/EN/solution/openpower 
> 
> Servers not desktops.

Too grunty for you?

>> 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!

Well, the OP did ask about performance. What price of Intel machine would you need to match that?

>> https://www.tomshardware.com/news/libre-soc-releases-first-non-ibm-openpower-chip-in-decade 
> 
> Chip not desktop. 

I did say it could be beyond your skills grade ...