[Info-vax] report of the last "rendez-vous autour de VMS" (2-FEB-2024)

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/18/2024 7:05 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
> In article <uvrpvg$2dbgu$3 at dont-email.me>,
> Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 4/17/2024 11:29 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 22:27:58 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> But VMS could not wait years for a new CPU.
>>>
>>> VMS wasn’t “waiting” for anything. It was customers waiting for VMS.
>>
>> Yes. Because VSI ported to a CPU that was ready. Instead of to a CPU
>> that may be ready some day in the future.
> 
> ARM is ready right now.

You can buy an ARM server or rent an ARM VM in a public
cloud if you search for it.

But very few of the VMS customers will have ARM servers
or ARM VM's today.

So even though ARM would have been better than Itanium,
because it is possible to buy a new one, then it would
still have been a market disaster as VMS would still be
"that weird OS that requires different HW than the
rest of our stuff".

Arne