[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/31/2022 9:02 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-01-31, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> I would run Solaris on SPARC and I do run VMS on Alpha
>> and keep Linux on x86-64. Are there any benefits
>> from running Linux on a less common platform?
> 
> One of the reasons Linux has taken off is that you can run it on
> pretty much every single thing that is physically capable of hosting
> it in terms of CPU power and memory/other resources.

Is it?

To me it seems that the industry impact of Linux is very much
centered around x86-64 servers and ARM Android devices.

Look at what Redhat and other actually support. There is a
reason for that.

Raspberry Pi is fun but it is not a B$ thing.

Arne