>Itanium was intel's failed attempt at a 64bit architecture and that's the platform VMS decided to port to. That made hardware expensive and as of recently obso

>Itanium was intel's failed attempt at a 64bit architecture and that's the platform VMS decided to port to. That made hardware expensive and as of recently obsolete (i think hp discontinued that integrity line of servers) OpenVMS x86-64 port is a work in progress: https://www.vmssoftware.com/updates_port.html https://www.vmssoftware.com/updates_port.html