[Info-vax] clock problems with OpenVMS x86 on VirtualBox

Gary Sparkes mokuba at gmail.com
Mon May 8 00:59:51 EDT 2023


On Sunday, May 7, 2023 at 11:34:47 PM UTC-4, terry-... at glaver.org wrote:
> On Sunday, May 7, 2023 at 10:05:59 PM UTC-4, Robert A. Brooks wrote: 
> > There is no VEST/TIE-like mechanism for running non-X86 code on VMS for X86_64.
> Do I remember correctly that some method of running Alpha user code was planned for a future release?

VSI states in their FAQ that they prototyped a working VEST type solution, but....

"We created a prototype binary translator for Alpha to x86-64, however there are no plans at this time to develop this further. Any additional work will be evaluated based on customer requirements."

from: https://vmssoftware.com/about/v9-qa/



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