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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <R4CdnbG1qNAnQ33TnZ2dnUVZ_rWdnZ2d at earthlink.com>, "John Reagan" <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> writes:
> 
> 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. 

   Like, I said, it wasn't a real port.  RMS and some other stuff on top 
   of Mach, not a real VMS kernel.  No Macro-32, IIRC.