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

[Dave Froble]

On 5/8/2023 8:40 AM, bill wrote:
> On 5/7/2023 11:34 PM, 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?
>
> At this point I am amazed there isn't a VAX and an Alpha emulator
> included as a part of VMS-x86_64 to allow people to run code that
> can not be moved forward.
>
> bill
>

"At this point" x86 VMS does not have all the compilers working on x86, and the 
OS build is not native.  "At this point" I have no idea why you'd think such 
software would have any priority.

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