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

[Kulin Remailer]

VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

> 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!

Big Endian rules. It's pretty hard to go little. But SPARC can run
bidirectional, just not for privileged code. I don't know if that will work
for VMS or not.