[Info-vax] OT: IBM Offering $9-10 Per Share for Sun

[Arne Vajhøj]

Christopher wrote:
> On Apr 5, 3:59 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> But I find it very difficult to believe that it is something
>>> where the "let a handful of engineers do a little work in their
>>> spare time" approach will produce anything usable.
>> Usable ? No. Proof of concept that is usable as basis to do a full
>> fledged port, Yes.
>>
>> The first thing that needs to be done is to find out how VMS can work
>> within today's 8086 architectures (modes, memory protection, registers
>> etc). Then they need a cross compiler to get the early stuff compiled
> 
> A cross compiler is not necessary. gcc will compile the code handily
> on an x86 windows, linux, or solaris box.

I don't think GCC will output all necessary stuff - VMS linking and
object files do have some VMS specific features.

Arne