[HECnet] AXP Emulation
Phil Mendelsohn
phil at rephil.org
Fri Aug 10 22:29:00 PDT 2012
On 10/08/2012 3:10 PM, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
On Aug 10, 2012, at 4:07 PM, <hvlems at zonnet.nl>
wrote:
Correct, Windows started off on four platforms so the intimacy of VMS with the VAX was just not there. But VMS was a lot farther away from Alpha too.
I don't think that's accurate.
Most operating systems are not closely tied to a specific platform. And in the case of VMS, the Alpha architecture had some specific attributes that were meant to make porting VMS easier.
I agree. Alpha architecture was done with a posteriori and first-hand internal knowledge of VMS and where it was headed / what it's customers needed. I had a pre-release AXP Architecture Handbook which would confirm, if I could lay my hands on the tree ware.
But this is OT, I suppose.
Phil M
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