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.

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