[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[druck]

On 13/11/2023 23:40, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> Several years later I did another project on DEC Alpha Servers running
> Tru64 UNIX, which I preferred to VMS, being a UNIX fanatic. Tru64 UNIXwas
> pretty much a straight-forward port of UNIX System V functions and
> programing tools onto a MACH-based kernel. This was amazingly fast for the
> era and fairly bullet-proof.

I loved the Alpha, if there was any justice in the world it would have 
beaten the x86, but legal machinations and unexplicable madness 
happened. But not before DEC sprinkled some of their Alpha magic on the 
ARM to give us the StrongARM. Without which the architecture may not 
have been as widely adopted and we wouldn't have the Pi. Of course being 
wildly optimistic we could yet see ARM displacing x86, given the 
traction ARM is gaining in the data centre and on the desktop with 
Apple's M series - which was created by some of the design team of the 
Alpha - what goes around, comes around!

---druck