[Info-vax] OpenVMS Potential Platform of Interest: Intel NUCs

[Dan Cross]

In article <t9ktg4$20e7o$1 at dont-email.me>,
Stephen Hoffman  <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>On 2022-06-29 09:03:14 +0000, John Wallace said:
>
>> ...and Apple seemingly have no official interest in this kind of market.
>
>Apple is exiting the Intel x86-64 market, with few Intel x86-64 boxes 
>still offered in the current Mac product line: Mac Pro with Intel, and 
>one model of mini with Intel.
>
>With Apple silicon Armv8-A boxes, the Mac mini (non-Intel models) is in 
>this same range as NUC, and Mac Studio is slightly above this product 
>range.
>
>The Mac mini Intel x86-64 config and other Intel x86-64 Macs will 
>likely work with OpenVMS via hypervisor, not that I'd suggest 
>purchasing Mac with Intel x86-64 at this juncture.
>
>Whether OpenVMS might boot on Apple silicon under UTM QEMU? Donno. Not 
>expecting a VSI OpenVMS native port to Armv9-A this decade, nor to 
>RISC-V next.

That seems short-sighted.  If I were VSI, I'd take the opportunity
to support x86_64, Aarch64 and RISC-V as an opportunity to clean up
and modernize the VMS source base and make it truly portable.  Each
ISA could be supported under a hypervisor; VMS on bare metal seems
like mostly a dead end.

	- Dan C.