Then you’d be switching chip architectures, because I know of no plans to port VMS to the i32 or i64 architecture.
About the only fast way to get there (as far as I can see), would be a VM that emulates the Alpha or Itanium instruction set on i64.
The biggest barriers, IMO, to porting VMS to the i64 would be the lack of the Bliss compiler for your target architecture. You could write a program to translate the Macro stuff over, but all that Bliss-32 code... woof. That’s a huge undertaking.
Yep, I know this — I'd like to see it on AMD's 64-bit architecture (x86_64), but that doesn't look like it'll happen.
About the only fast way to get there (as far as I can see), would be a VM that emulates the Alpha or Itanium instruction set on i64.
Yep, I was looking at simh earlier today, but I might be able to grab some Itainums [off ebay or whatever] for a fair price should I need the actual HW.
The biggest barriers, IMO, to porting VMS to the i64 would be the lack of the Bliss compiler for your target architecture. You could write a program to translate the Macro stuff over, but all that Bliss-32 code... woof. That’s a huge undertaking.
Yeah... which is why I'd likely go with grabbing the Itainum (or Alpha) HW: less work.