[Info-vax] VMS survivability

[John Dallman]

In article <tsvkdf$ne9$1 at reader2.panix.com>,
cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) wrote:
> In article <tsug6g$hia4$4 at dont-email.me>,
> Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:

> > In 2000 commercial Unix on RISC CPU's was still the thing
> > that companies ported to.
> By 2000 the economics were obvious.

They were, for software that was available on Linux, but the world took a
while to catch up. 2000 was when my employers started supporting it. 

They'd already supported 32-bit HP-UX, Solaris, AIX and Irix for years by
then. 64-bit is now mandatory in their field, and was becoming  important
in the early 2000s. 

We supported 64-bit OSF/1 (later renamed Tru64) on Alpha from 1994, but
64-bit didn't take off on other platforms until 2001, when we shipped
64-bit builds of HP-UX and Solaris, followed by AIX, Irix and Linux in
2004. This was all driven by customer demand. Nowadays we support Linux
and macOS, iOS and Android, all 64-bit only, with both x86 and ARM for
Linux and macOS.

John