[Info-vax] If I wanted to get there, I certainly wouldn't start from here (was: Re: VMS on a PC)

[koehler at spock.koehler.athome.net]

In article <gl2up1$dc6$1 at news-01.bur.connect.com.au>, "Richard Maher" <maher_rj at hotspamnotmail.com> writes:
> 
> Again just idle curiosity, but would a lot of these problems go away if one
> were porting VAX/VMS to X86 rather that Alpha or I64? I guess there's just
> so much software and new versions that just never made it to VAX, but would
> CISC to CISC have been a more straight forward exercise? Surely after
> anything-to-EPIC, everything else has to be easy?

   No.  The memory management differences, exception handling differences,
   and mode change differences are a much bigger problem than figuring
   out how to generate the correct instructions to add two integers.