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Or 2018 if you're brave. For now, we have a boot screen!
Story's a bit dated but being as they're in no rush, I don't see any need for us to be either. So, you lot think we'll ever actually get to play with a VMS box on cheap hardware or is this going to be another DNF situation?
Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/13/openvms_moves_slowly_towards_x86/
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Thursday April 20 2017, @03:05PM (3 children)
Mostly dead closed source platform might successfully port to x86_64 as it realizes no new hardware is likely for Itanium, which it had been hoping was its future. If you are unfortunate enough to have a large investment in hard to replace VMS software you probably care that you might be able to replace hardware for a few more cycles. If you actually have buildable source and staff to do the port. Nobody else should care, certainly nobody should get marketed into wasting developer resources on new projects for a dead platform.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by requerdanos on Thursday April 20 2017, @03:30PM (1 child)
[Will x86 VMS be released] or is this going to be another DNF situation?
Well, DNF came in 13 years late* and infinitely over budget, brought to market by a rescue team** instead of its creators, but it did get released, to everyone's surprise. Ars Technica called it "Barely playable, not funny, rampantly offensive." [arstechnica.com]
Now here's VMS being ported to x86 years later by another rescue team; if the analogy holds, there will be a release. Thus it's not "will it be released OR will it be like DNF" because though it took many years (the case with both DNF and any current VMS), DNF was released.
TFA does mention that "the x86 rewrite is a slow process."
* DNF Announced for 1998; released 2011 [a-13.net].
** DNF Designed, incompetently half-produced, and smothered by Apogee/3d Realms [3drealms.com]; Salvaged and released by Gearbox. [dukenukemforever.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:25PM
Thanks, your post prevented me from googling for that mysterious DNF operating system.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday April 21 2017, @02:55AM
To be of use to organizations with existing VMS software. Wouldn't it require the system to emulate the instruction set of VAX-11 etc?
Even if one has the source code. Recompiling might not be a straight affair.