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

[motk]

On 19/04/2024 9:05 am, Dan Cross wrote:

> ARM is ready right now.  But that's irrelevant;
> we'll be dealing with x86 for the next 20 to
> 30 years, at least.  It may loss it's position
> as #1 in 10, but it's not going away any time
> soon.

ARM64 and X86-64 are both going to be around for decades. ARM is 
becoming more interesting in the server space, but is a pretty fractured 
ecosystem that requires a lot of coding-to-the-hardware; that said you 
can go to AWS or Azure and spin up a nice ARM machine for cheap right 
now. It's definitely worth investigating a port; I'm not sure if OpenVMS 
is self-hosting enough to cross-compile yet but I suspect there's a lot 
of hard-coded C in there.

On the other side, x86s and FRED are worth some serious investigation.

> 	- Dan C.

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motk