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

[Dave Froble]

On 2/19/2022 1:05 PM, John Reagan wrote:
> 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?
>

COMMON, MAP, RECORD, yeah, many times.

MAP (M) Long L
MAP (M) STRING S=4

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