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

[John Reagan]

"Who Else" <ad.ad.sosos at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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On Dec 13, 6:44 pm, Snowshoe <n... at spam.please> wrote:
> On 12/6/2011 2:27 PM, John Reagan wrote:
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> > "Bob Koehler"<koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote in message
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> >> In article<jblglg$v6... at usenet01.boi.hp.com>, "Robert A. Brooks"
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> >>> Simply not true, unless your definition of "worked on it" was overly
> >>> flexible to the point of being without credibility. There was never 
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> >>> project to port VMS to X86, skunkworks or otherwise.
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> >> Emerald. White papers have been available on the internet. Not
> >> quite a port, though.
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> >> FreeVMS. Also not a port.
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> > Neither are from HP& OpenVMS Engineering.
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> Wasn't there an Emerald chip project that predated Alpha that was to run
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> That was Prism.  IIRC Emerald was the OS for Prism.

I think Emerald was a hardware platform.  The OS was named Mica.  The 
implementation language was named Pillar (sort of a mix of Pascal and PL/1). 
I have a draft Pillar manual somewhere.

John