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

Paul Sture paul at sture.ch
Thu Dec 8 14:27:10 EST 2011


On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:56:22 +0000, VAXman- wrote:

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

>>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!

A complete nightmare for much of the code I was involved with 20 years 
ago! 

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Paul Sture



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