[Info-vax] Attn VSI employees: Viable full system Itanium emulator for VMS ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-02-17, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 2/17/2022 2:04 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 2/17/2022 9:00 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> I've had some more thoughts about this and it _may_ end up being
>>> a viable Itanium full system emulator for VSI to offer after all.
>> 
>> My only questions are "why?" and "who would want such a thing?"
>> 
>> The itanic was never a good idea.  Yeah, throw enough memory and process 
>> shrinks at something and it will work.  Doesn't make it a good idea.
>
> VMS users should go for x86-64.
>

When a production quality version is _finally_ available and when it's
been around long enough to be trusted.

If VSI can deliver a production quality Itanium emulation product a lot
quicker than that, and hence allows customers to move from their Itanium
hardware to modern hardware, that could be enough to keep some customers
that VSI would otherwise lose.

Simon.

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