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

[Richard Maher]

On 20/02/2022 2:05 am, 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?


. . . or COBOL REDEFINES

Say it John! Go on say it :-)