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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Modern copy of GNAT for OpenVMS?
Date: 5 Dec 2002 08:56:36 -0600
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In article <uu1hsa689.fsf@nasa.gov>, Stephen Leake <Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov> writes:

> I don't think VMS has been ported to anything other than VAX and
> Alpha. Of course, there is "cheap, generic Alpha hardware" that runs
> VMS; can you use that?

VMS is in the process of also being ported to Itanium, with the notion
that those Intel chips will be used in cheap generic systems (albeit
slower than Alpha at the start, but that should not concern someone
currently running on VAX).

> What windowing system does your application use (if you have a GUI)?
> What OS services does it require? From your statement above, I can only
> conclude that it needs networking. Does it use TCP/IP sockets, or some
> VMS thing? Of course, given a modern processor, you might be able to
> do everything in one processor, and get rid of the networking.

But a lot of VMS applications, and a lot of Ada applications, are
designed with reliability in mind.  For such settings it can be
dangerous to put all one's eggs in one system box.