[Info-vax] VMS on a PC

[Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing]

In article <gkt61l$p6s$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>, "FredK" <fred.nospam at dec.com> writes:
>> my guess is that should VMS ever be ported to the 8086, it would require
>> an EFI based  64 bit 8086 system.
>
>EFI will soon be on all PC's (it is already on many) - it is being heavily 
>pushed by Intel and Microsoft who both want to see the end of the BIOS.
>
>> Porting costs would be
>> far less if they can re-use the EFI stuff (probably vastly unchanged)
>> instead of supporting the primitive BIOS.
>
>Porting VMS starts with porting all the tools, like the VMS-specific 
>compilers (start with Macro-32 and Bliss).  That is the biggest initial 
>hurdle.  So before you have the first line of code ported you probably have 
>1-2 years of calendar time invested.

Wasn't there an 8086 port of Bliss for Windows NT?  (I think it's even on
the freeware someplace.)

-- Alan