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No. Actual VAX died shortly after Alpha became a thing, and Alpha died when Itanium came along. OpenVMS was ported to Itanium around 2010/2011, but HP shifted t
by BirAdam 3y ago
No. Actual VAX died shortly after Alpha became a thing, and Alpha died when Itanium came along. OpenVMS was ported to Itanium around 2010/2011, but HP shifted to x86-64 around 2015 as Itanium sales began to quickly drop. At this point, there’s x86-64, ARM, RISC-V in the west, with Itanium’s cousin Elbrus in Russia and some MIPS stuff in China. IBM still makes and sells POWER, but it’s a niche of a niche market.
If someone managed to make Alpha or VAX come back, he/she might end up sued into oblivion by HPE… and then possibly hired by them.