[Info-vax] The attempts to keep Linux on Itanium (attempt number 0x7fff_ffff)

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-11-25, Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell at munted.eu> wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-11-21 at 17:03 -0800, Jake Hamby (Solid State Jake) wrote:
>> > I suspect it might be just possible to emulate the hardware on
>> > today's 
>> > machines but one would need their head examined. 
>> > -- 
>> > Tactical Nuclear Kittens
>> 
>> You can?t emulate Itanium fast enough in software with any known
>> emulator that?s available to the public and is capable of running the
>> Linux kernel. There?s only a very old partial software emulator
>> called ski.
>
> It's much easier anyway to just install OpenVMS on x86!

And as mentioned earlier, _that_ removes the last possible reason to
want an Itanium full-system emulator. :-)

Simon.

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