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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote 2011-12-11 11:06:
> 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).

See page 9 ("Been There...") of this PDF :
http://de.openvms.org/TUD2005/14_Oracle_RDB_update__Norm_Lastovica.pdf

See also this message from Keith Cayemberg which matches how I
remember things at the time.

http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.vms/2011-06/msg00451.html

Jan-Erik.


   Might have had to do with an Rdb port, and since Rdb is written
> in Bliss, one had to port the Bliss compiler first.
>