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

[John Reagan]

On Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 3:05:11 PM UTC-5, Dan Cross wrote:
> In article <j77mqc... at mid.individual.net>,
> Bill Gunshannon <bill.gu... at gmail.com> wrote: 
> >On 2/17/22 14:32, Arne Vajhøj wrote: 
> >> We know that VAX emulation is used by some VMS users. 
> > 
> >VMS users have a reason to stay where they are. As we have 
> >discussed here ad infinitum in some cases there is little or 
> >no option to migrate. That is never the case with HP-UX 
> >which is just another flavor of Unix.
> I really don't understand the point of an HP-UX port 
> to x86_64. 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. 
> 
> For that matter, I'm not sure I understand the point of 
> a VMS port to x86_64 as a long-term commercial product. 
> I could have seen it with the first Opertons, but not 
> now. In particular, what market is VSI hoping for except 
> legacy customers who are tied to VMS for specific 
> vertical applications? Why would someone make the 
> decision to base a new product entry on OpenVMS in 2022? 
> 
> Don't get me wrong, I *like* VMS, but let's be realistic. 
> I doubt if they'll get much uptake beyond moving legacy 
> applications to modern hardware, and even then, I think 
> their user base will asymptotically shrink to zero as 
> those applications migrate to other systems. 
> 
> - Dan C.
Big endian.  A little endian version of HP-UX on x86 does not offer anything.