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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <4ee1dbf6$0$31482$c3e8da3$9b4ff22a at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 
>> But apart from Macro-32, you'd definitely need Bliss. I don't know if 
>> you really need C.
> 
> Is Bliss used for low level VMS stuff ? I thought it was used more in
> various utilities and applications than in the actual operating system.
> 
> (in other words, is Bliss code really involved in the early bootup
> sequence that gets you to a $ on a minimum startup with startuyp file
> set to OPA0: ?

   Yes.  The kernel is full of BLISS.