[Info-vax] VMS on a PC

[Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing]

In article <%CCcl.5800$U5.48636 at newsb.telia.net>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan-Erik_S=F6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing wrote:
>> In article <gkt61l$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
>
>Wasn't that done in the porting of "Rdb for NT" ?

It was needed for that.  My understanding was that when it was desupported,
that kiboshed Rdb for NT.

-- Alan