Re: Alpha remembrance day


David Mathog wrote:
etmsreec@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
In article <DTiotGxQ0bj6-pn2-W7L6joy8WjGC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Dave Weatherall" <djw-nothere@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
The only trouble with the theory, and it may well be correct, is that
the same situation, a dearth of applications, was always going to
apply to Itaniuim too.
But that is pretty much what people have been saying all along. If
the same logic that killed Alpha were applied to the Itanium, it too
would be dead meat. So, how comfortable does that make people feel
betting their business on it?

Not very, but it's the only game in town I guess?

It's also possible to run VMS on the emulator on x86 hardware.

It is but this does not solve the ISV support issue because most major
ISV's will not support VMS running on an emulator on x86,any more than
they would support FX!32 when it attempted to solve a similar problem.

Taking that approach would relegate OpenVMS to the museum exhibit,
hobby, home and to the truly despirate.

regards
Andrew Harrison

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