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

[Arne Vajhøj]

Christopher wrote:
> On Apr 5, 6:23 pm, Arne Vajhøj <a... at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> A POC doesn't need to link against pre-existing VMS binaries.

There will not be any existing VMS/x86-64 binaries to link against.

>                                                               Just
> compile all the code with gcc and use the standard linker.

If it is not VMS linker, VMS image format, VMS object format, VMS image
loader etc. then it is not VMS.

Arne