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

[Dan Cross]

In article <j79socF3fg8U1 at mid.individual.net>,
Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 2/18/22 09:12, John Dallman wrote:
>> In article <69d0b812-0d53-42b6-af62-b0317973dfc9n at googlegroups.com>,
>> xyzzy1959 at gmail.com (John Reagan) wrote:
>>> On Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 2:28:46 PM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon
>>>> 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.
>>> Big endian
>> 
>> What makes big-endian attractive to end-user organisations?
>
>What real difference does endianess make to anyone today?

You'd be shocked.  A Very Large Tech Company tried to move
to BE Power from x86, and the project repeatedly failed because
of baked-in LE assumptions.  It's even worse than assumptions
about memory models.

	- Dan C.