[Info-vax] vax vms licenses

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/26/2022 2:11 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 4/26/2022 1:09 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2022-04-26, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>> Don't need no stinkin itanic.
>>
>> Read the original quote above. Itanium is currently used for things
>> that Alpha cannot be used for.
> 
> I don't see anything like that?
> 
> What can itanic do that Alpha cannot?  It's a shared code base.

10 year old Itanium systems are faster than 20 year
old Alpha systems.

VMS x86-64 cross compilers are only available on
Itanium.

Java 8 is only available on Itanium - Alpha
is left at Java 5.

Lots of VSI provided open source ports are
Itanium only including ActiveMQ and MariaDB.

So there are a few things.

Alpha is obviously more loved than Itanium, but ...

Arne