[Info-vax] Ghostscript and HTML Browser on X86

Chris Townley news at cct-net.co.uk
Tue Dec 13 08:51:47 EST 2022


On 13/12/2022 12:24, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-12-13 at 02:19 -0800, Andreas Gruhl wrote:
>> Here I can offer some good news: DEC Windows and Motif run on X86
>> VMS 9.2 without any issues. We use them heavily.
>> There is no X-server, however, but we do not need it.
> 
> That is good news. I can't wait until they make the hobbyist OpenVMS
> for x86 available then it could be an interesting exercise to port over
> Gnome and other programs. I've always wanted an OpenVMS desktop on x86.
> I have a threadripper that would /love/ to run it. That's got 48
> logical cores and 128Gb ECC RAM.

Slight problem here is that VSI are not currently supporting AMD CPUs, 
although I understand that is on the roadmap

-- 
Chris




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