[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Arne Vajhøj]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> Neil Rieck wrote:
>> Since any idiot can put up a web page these days, you know it all
>> can't be true. So imagine my surprise when I bumped into this:
>>
>> http://radsoft.net/rants/20040831,00.shtml
>>
>> <quote>Dave always wanted to rewrite VMS in C. He hated Unix but loved
>> C. As soon as he'd finished VMS he suggested the rewrite. He was
>> turned down flat. Several years later he found himself in Seattle and
>> essentially was doing the rewrite in C when word came DEC were tired
>> of him.</quote>
>>
>> This article contains lots of other (possibly) questionable facts, but
>> think about the statement above "rewrite VMS in C". If this had
>> happened, we would have VMS or OpenVMS on any platform including
>> x86-64
> 
> Not ANY platform!  There are architectural requirements; things like 
> number and sizes of registers, processor modes, etc.

Not any platform.

But if there is let us call it flexibility to redesign to match
the new HW, then I would assume that all HW capable of running
OS/400, Unix, Linux, Windows NT could be made to run VMS.

Arne