From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 14:01:46 +0200, gcalliet wrote:   
      
   > Le 02/07/2025 à 02:05, Lawrence D'Oliveiro a écrit :   
   >>   
   >> 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.   
   >>   
   > 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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