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

[Arne Vajhøj]

Christopher wrote:
> 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.

It is not defining VMS, but it would not be VMS without it.

Arne