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

[Christopher]

On Apr 6, 7:40 pm, Arne Vajhøj <a... at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> 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.

That's silly. If your OS is defined by your binary image type, you
have serious perspective problems.