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

[Dan Cross]

In article <v046kp$hqa7$2 at dont-email.me>, motk  <meh at meh.meh> wrote:
>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.

To be clear: I was not suggesting that VSI port VMS to ARM at
this time.  I was merely correcting Arne's mistatements.

	- Dan C.