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

[John Reagan]

On Friday, February 18, 2022 at 10:36:48 AM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 2/18/22 09:12, John Dallman wrote: 
> > In article <69d0b812-0d53-42b6... at googlegroups.com>, 
> > xyzz... 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? 
> > 
> > John
> What real difference does endianess make to anyone today? 
> 
> bill
<Fortran COMMON blocks enters the chat>

Nobody has used a COMMON block in one place with an integer and in another with bytes?  Or a C union or a Pascal variant record?