[FreeVMS] Re: FreeVMS thought of the day....

[BERTRAND Joël]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 08:42:16AM +0200, Roar Thronæs wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:33:37PM -0600, Roger Tucker wrote:
> > 
> > 3. Last but not least, at this rate, when FreeVMS is running and stable
> > IA-32e CPUs will be the norm rather than the exception.
> 
> But we can not be sure.

	Of course.

> It might go the same way as the Itanic IA-64.

	It shall be difficult, isn't it ? ;-)

> So far it seems that x64_64 will be it (availability).
> 
> > All this being said, I think we should stay with 32 bit IA-32 CPUs as long
> > as possible since most of us don't have access to IA-32e CPUs yet...  :-(
> 
> Yes, these Xeons are expensive, and I would not expect to find such
> computers in the rubbish bin.

	Why not Opterons ? They are not very expensive. But I think the question
	is: shall FreeVMS be portable or not ? If we want to use IA64 specificities,
	I think we have to fork the kernel (IA32 tree and IA64).

> > Linux runs on tons of different CPUs, but I think FreeVMS should be more
> > limited in the hardware that is supported to make it easier to maintain and
> 
> That depends on the number of developers, and on the availability of IA-32e.

	Regards,

	JKB