[Info-vax] Compilers and architectures

[koehler at spock.koehler.athome.net]

In article <0060f0dd$0$10083$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 
> In the case of VMS to Alpha, is it correct to assume that they had to
> build Alpha cross compilers on VAX-VMS so that they could generate a
> minimal VMS binary and then boot it on Alpha ?

   No.  The didn't have to.  They could have dusted off some old
   PDP-11 and built Alpha cross compilers on RSX-11M+.

   But I think they did the smarter thing.