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

[Steven Schweda]

On Dec 9, 11:20 am, BillPedersen <peder... at ccsscorp.com> wrote:

> [...]
> Porting Unix application to OpenVMS - some of the most interesting and
> useful - is near impossible due to the lack of a real SSIO and a real
> FORK mechanism at present.  This has been know for years and years.
> It has been called the linch pin of getting Unix portability and it
> still has not been completed.  Without these features even if it were
> on the "industry standard" platforms it would still not be attractive
> to port application to OpenVMS.

   Haven't you visited openvms.org lately?  I always enjoy
reading that Joke-in-the-Box, "OpenSource Porting Becomes
Easier" (with the "Read more..." link to the longer article
with the "June 02 2010" date.)  We're getting close to the
end of that "6 to 24 months" time frame.  I'm holding _my_
breath.  How about you?

http://www.openvms.org/stories.php?story=10/06/02/1513268

   VMS seems to be in the hospice, not the intensive-care
unit.  By plan, not by accident.