From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net   
      
   In article ,   
   John Dallman  wrote:   
   >In article <10ad18c$2d4$1@reader1.panix.com>,   
   >cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) wrote:   
   >   
   >> I mean, Pr1mos is basically gone.  There's an emulator, but I   
   >> don't think (new) hardware has been sold for decades, since   
   >> Pr1me went under.   
   >   
   >Emulator here: ,   
      
   That's the one.   
      
   >not to be confused with a version of (obsolete) Android for PCs   
   >with the same name.   
      
   I'll bet there's a band with that name, too....   
      
   >No new hardware since the early 1990s.   
      
   And so it goes.   
      
   >> Solaris and HP-UX are on their last legs.   
   >   
   >Oracle still say they're supporting Solaris 11.4 with mainstream support   
   >until 2031 and offering extended support until 2037, but that's 20 years   
   >after the final CPU model, the M8, was released.   
      
   I wonder what percentage of Solaris installations are on SPARC   
   and what are x86 at this point.  2037 is only 12 years away.   
      
   >HP-UX support from HPE ends at the end of 2025. The hardware stopped   
   >being sold in 2021.   
      
      
   Oh, how the mightly have fallen.   
      
   >> Is GCOS6 even still available, or is it just legacy support?   
   >   
   >Seems to be all emulation now.   
      
   And I presume that's all for existing customers.   
      
   To bring this back to VMS, this all worries me a bit.   
   Biological monocultures tend to be susceptible to single points   
   of failure; I don't think software is particularly different.   
      
   Putting all our eggs in one Linux basket may not be the best   
   idea from a resilience point of view, which is why it's nice   
   that there are alternatives.   
      
   	- Dan C.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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