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VMS Will be Ready to Run on x86 in 2019!

posted by on Thursday April 20 2017, @10:46AM   
from the breaking-news dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

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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• Re:not a fan of capabilities Re:not a fan of capabilities (Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday April 21 2017, @02:44AM (2 children)

  by kaszz (4211) on Friday April 21 2017, @02:44AM (#497192) Journal

  Systems run by clueless people will always be a disadvantage to whoever has to endure them. The problem is clueless people, not software. Which in the modern era is solved by that even a handheld phone has more computing power than a early 1990s supercomputer (8*10^9 op/s).

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• Re:not a fan of capabilities Re:not a fan of capabilities (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday April 21 2017, @02:53PM (1 child)

  by khallow (3766) on Friday April 21 2017, @02:53PM (#497426) Journal

  Sure, but this level of clueless micromanagement would have been more difficult on most other systems. Incompetence negates capability.

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  • Re:not a fan of capabilities (Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday April 21 2017, @03:16PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Friday April 21 2017, @03:16PM (#497441) Journal

    So true, no default micromanagement capability. Thwarting incompetence since dawn of mankind.. ;)

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