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

[Stephen Hoffman]

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.



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