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

[JKB]

Le 12 Dec 2011 08:38:22 -0600,
Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> écrivait :
> 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.

	Nope, only older kernel. 0.4 doesn't use BLISS32 anymore, but you
	can find bliss compiler sources in FreeVMS tree. 0.4 kernel is built
	on a L4 microkernel and is written in pure C (without all C
	functions that can produce buffer overflow of course).

	JKB

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