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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 2/17/22 14:08, Arne Vajhøj 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.
> 
> I can understand the interest from HP-UX userrs.
> 

I can't understand the interest in HP-UX at all.  It's just
another proprietary Unix and not really one of the better ones.
And, yes, I have had to work with it at higher than the user
level.

bill