[Info-vax] VMS on a PC

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bob Eager wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:03:31 UTC, "Richard B. Gilbert" 
> <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> faceman28208 at yahoo.com wrote:
>>> Having not touched a VMS system since I left DEC, I was wondering if
>>> HP had yet bothered to create a version of it that would run on a
>>> standard PC, especially with 64-bits being the current norm.
>>>
>> I don't believe that the X86 architecture is capable of running VMS as 
>> we know it!  The hardware is just too different.
> 
> Not sure about that...one cvould have a good try!
> 
> Did anyone ever play with the DOS-based Wendin 'PC-VMS', many many years
> ago?

I did.  Playing with was about all it was good for.  Source was included 
but you couldn't build it using the then current Microsoft C.

I might still have it somewhere in the mess but I suspect I trashed it.