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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 12/13/2011 7:44 PM, Snowshoe wrote:
> On 12/6/2011 2:27 PM, John Reagan wrote:
>> "Bob Koehler"<koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote in message
>> news:MAH0WVbTWlBl at eisner.encompasserve.org...
>>> In article<jblglg$v61$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>, "Robert A. Brooks"
>>> <rab at aitchpee.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>> Simply not true, unless your definition of "worked on it" was overly
>>>> flexible to the point of being without credibility. There was never any
>>>> project to port VMS to X86, skunkworks or otherwise.
>>>
>>> Emerald. White papers have been available on the internet. Not
>>> quite a port, though.
>>>
>>> FreeVMS. Also not a port.
>>>
>>
>> Neither are from HP& OpenVMS Engineering.
>
> Wasn't there an Emerald chip project that predated Alpha that was to run
> VMS? (and Alpha wound up using some ideas from Emerald)

If you really, really want to run VMS on a PC, there is, or was, a 
program called PCVMS.  It gave you a reasonable facsimile of DCL but 
that's about as far as it went.  Source was available.