Sujet : Re: Bootcamp
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.vmsDate : 03. Jul 2025, 00:32:00
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On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 14:01:46 +0200, gcalliet wrote:
Le 02/07/2025 à 02:05, Lawrence D'Oliveiro a écrit :
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I would say their market is a fraction of what it would have been if
they had been ready with an x86 port say, five years earlier.
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Of course.
But also VSI didn't really address the ecosystem as the complex set it
is, with totally different needs and paces of evolution.
Essentially all the (remaining) customers were waiting to move to x86,
because all the existing platforms that VMS ran on were dead-ends 10 years
ago. The only strategy left to VSI was “run as fast as possible”.
We discussed this sort of thing in this group a few years ago. The obvious
way it seemed to me to get to a shipping product as quickly as possible
was to re-implement VMS as an emulation layer on top of a Linux kernel.
Chuck away all the internals of the super/exec/kernel-mode legacy baggage:
keep just the userland APIs and DCL. Hardly anybody would care about
anything else.
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Re: Bootcamp