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

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <4ee2ede0$0$1403$c3e8da3$f6268168 at news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes: 

> 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 ?

I'm pretty sure that this happened (on 64-bit Windows, presumably on 
Alpha).  Might have had to do with an Rdb port, and since Rdb is written 
in Bliss, one had to port the Bliss compiler first.