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

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In article <BLAJTE2140886.1002430556 at reece.net.au>, Kulin Remailer <remailer at reece.net.au> writes:
>> 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 ;-)

Big Endian.  There's a whole new hitch!

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