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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 2/17/22 14:17, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

And any time on such a project would just be wasted time that
could have been spent on projects that matter.  Like the
Titanic it was name for it has sunk.  Let it rest  on the
bottom and move on.

bill