On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 17:25 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:56:15 -0500 > "Jon 'maddog' Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I actually thought that VMS was 64-bit right from the get-go on Alpha > > (1993), but I could be wrong on that.... > No. It was 32-bits on the Alpha and still is. I followed up on that > last year at the IDF in Houston. It was one of the things I > specifically asked one of the VMS developers.
Hmmm, you seem to have someone else disagree with you, since earlier they stated that "OpenVMS" was 64-bit in 1995, but I did not pay that much attention to the "VMS stuff". :-) Of course having VMS only 32-bit on the VAX made sense, as you could not get the architecture to be 64-bit. If Alpha VMS was only 32-bit, I would think that would have been another classic mistake by Digital. If there was one OS that could have taken advantage of 64-bits, it was VMS. (sigh) md _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/