[Info-vax] VMS and security

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Tue Nov 22 08:04:36 EST 2022


On 2022-11-22, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>
> For the future we are concerned with VSI VMS on Itanium.  Even a 
> hobbyist will probably not be willing to invest much time, effort, or 
> money for a license which might stop working less than a year from now.
>

In a world where people produce emulations of hardware architectures just
for fun, it's interesting that no-one has produced a full-system Itanium
emulator.

That shows just how complex Itanium really is. (Plus the fact that the
required firmware is now only apparently available under a support contract).

Simon.

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