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

[Dan Cross]

In article <uvttut$31g69$1 at dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>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".

I see you omitted the rest of my post in which I
largely agreed with you.  The point was that you are
mistaken in asserting earlier that ARM is not ready.
It absolutely is.

	- Dan C.