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VMS Will be Ready to Run on x86 in 2019!

posted by on Thursday April 20 2017, @10:46AM   Printer-friendly
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MrPlow writes:

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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/

Previous coverage:
OpenVMS Not Yet Dead.

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday April 21 2017, @02:55AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Friday April 21 2017, @02:55AM (#497195) Journal

    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.

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