[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 21:11:49 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> Have you noticed how the world has moved from Windows to Linux with
> Wine?

Yes. Look at the (Linux-based) Steam Deck, which has been making some 
inroads into the very core of Windows dominance, namely the PC gaming 
market. Enough to get Microsoft to take notice.

> MS tried WSL1 and changed to to a VM model with WSL2.
> 
> 2 x commercial failure.

On the part of Windows, not on the part of Linux.

>>>> Remember, it took less time (and resources) than that to move Linux
>>>> from 32-bit x86 to 64-bit Alpha.
>>>
>>> Very different task.
>> 
>> How different? It’s exactly the same sort of thing: port an OS to a new
>> architecture.
> 
> If you call both a CPU and an underlying foreign OS kernel for "a new
> architecture" then yes.
> 
> But the reality is that it is very different.

New CPU -- check
“underlying foreign OS kernel” -- this was about porting the same kernel 
onto a different CPU. In both cases.

So tell me again: “very different” how?