[Info-vax] Running OpenVMS native on x86 . . .

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In article <R4CdnbG1qNAnQ33TnZ2dnUVZ_rWdnZ2d at earthlink.com>, "John Reagan" <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> writes:
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>"Bob Koehler" <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote in message 
>news:oBoFU6UNeH6E at eisner.encompasserve.org...
>> In article <DqSdnemgG-cx8UPTnZ2dnUVZ_u-dnZ2d at earthlink.com>, "John Reagan" 
>> <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> writes:
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>>> Neither are from HP & OpenVMS Engineering.
>>
>>   I believe Emerald was within DEC.
>>
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>Emerald was just a code name for some OpenVMS release (I forget which number 
>it became).
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>I was the owner the Macro-32 compiler for many years.  Me and a few others 
>did the Macro-32 compiler for Itanium.
>
>Since a large portion of OpenVMS is in Macro-32, you'd need some form of 
>compiler to generate the x86 code.  Unless I've been brainwashed into 
>forgetting that I did that work [insert favorite conspiracy theory here like 
>Hoff copying the source tree one late night in the basement of ZKO], we had 
>no Macro-32 compiler that generated x86 code. 

Wasn't that the top-secret work you were doing at Area 51? :)

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