[Info-vax] And another one bites the dust....

[John Dallman]

In article <suod1l$qrm$1 at reader1.panix.com>,
cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) wrote:

> Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> >And since it will be LLVM based then it must be x86-64 only.
> Why do you say that? Just in the sense that they won't
> backport to OpenVMS/Itanium or Alpha?  LLVM has backends
> for non-x86 architectures. (If I were VSI, I'd be
> getting a jump on ports to ARM and RISC-V now.)

/VSI are not DEC./ They have pretty limited resources, and need to
concentrate on the critical things for their business plan. 

ARM and RISC-V server hardware will be better and more readily available
in a few years' time. Those platforms can wait.

John