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

[John Dallman]

In article <sum9pl$3aj$1 at reader1.panix.com>,
cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) wrote:

> I really don't understand the point of an HP-UX port
> to x86_64.  

There are no indications that this is happening. I think there were some
claims about one during the HP/Oracle lawsuit over a decade ago, but no
news since. 

> What would be available that wouldn't also
> be available under, say, Linux?  HP-UX was never a
> very good or friendly version of Unix.

The P-UX product at the start of this thread appears to have been
cancelled. I suspect HPE decided that the costs to them outweighed the
benefits. 

John