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

[Bob Koehler]

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 ?

   There was a Windows compiler for BLISS, but I'm not sure what
   platform it ran on.


   There is a free BLISS compiler under development, FreeVMS uses it.