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

[Kulin Remailer]

> I was the owner the Macro-32 compiler for many years.  Me and a few others
> did the Macro-32 compiler for Itanium.

Awesome!

> 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. 

As well you should not have!

Why not port OpenVMS to SPARC? Plenty of cheap good hardware available and
more will be available as the years go on and Oracle continues alienating
customers. x86 is so ugly, OpenVMS deserves better ;-)