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

[John Reagan]

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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!
>

Actually SPARC V9 added some little-endian data access instructions so 
technically it is bi-endian in much the same way that Alpha or Itanium can 
be run in big-endian format.

John