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

[John Reagan]

"JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote in message 
news:4ee2ede0$0$1403$c3e8da3$f6268168 at news.astraweb.com...
> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>
>> Primordial VMS isn't devoid of Bliss code.  SYSBOOTIO is Bliss.  Some of
>> the bus support in SYSLOA is Bliss too.
>
>
> Is it my mimagination is was there a rumour that DEC had ported Bliss to
> windows at one point ? Or was this just windows-alpha ?
>

Visual Fortran on Windows x86 uses GEM and therefore BLISS.  32-bit mode 
only.  Windows object file format.  Windows debug format.  Windows calling 
standard.  Some BLISS features not implemented since the GEM/Fortran BLISS 
code base didn't use them (ie, funky register linkages).  Hacky GLOBAL 
REGISTER support that really wasn't GLOBAL (ie, you couldn't see them in an 
exception handler).  Probably a few more things, I don't remember.

John