[Info-vax] Ghostscript and HTML Browser on X86

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Tue Dec 13 20:10:33 EST 2022


On 12/13/2022 7:24 AM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> 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.

I guess the main reason for the x86-64 port is that all the
older HW platforms are now EOL.

But that fact that running on x86-64 makes very powerful
hardware available at very modest cost is a nice side effect
for sure.

Just don't run commercial software that charge per core!

Arne




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