[Info-vax] Attn VSI employees: Viable full system Itanium emulator for VMS ?
John Reagan
xyzzy1959 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 18 08:40:10 EST 2022
On Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 2:28:46 PM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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
Big endian
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