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

[Paul Sture]

On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:18:52 -0600, Bob Koehler wrote:

> In article <R4CdnbG1qNAnQ33TnZ2dnUVZ_rWdnZ2d at earthlink.com>, "John
> Reagan" <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> writes:
>> 
>> "Bob Koehler" <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote in
>> message news:oBoFU6UNeH6E at eisner.encompasserve.org...
>>> In article <DqSdnemgG-cx8UPTnZ2dnUVZ_u-dnZ2d at earthlink.com>, "John
>>> Reagan" <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> writes:
>>>>
>>>> Neither are from HP & OpenVMS Engineering.
>>>
>>>   I believe Emerald was within DEC.
>>>
>>>
>> Emerald was just a code name for some OpenVMS release (I forget which
>> number it became).
>> 
>> 
>    That may be true, but the Emerald project that I'm referencing was a
>    bit of VMS on top of the Mach micro-kernel, on an 80386.  It got as
>    far as first boot (login and do a COPY command).

Type, edit and diff as seen here:

http://www.sture.ch/images/VMS-on_Mach-Prototype-Session.png

which is taken from page 13 of

http://www.sture.ch/vms/Usenix_VMS-on-Mach.pdf



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