[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[David Froble]

Howard S Shubs wrote:
> In article <4f67e979$0$4672$c3e8da3$3a1a2348 at news.astraweb.com>,
>  JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> 
>> I fear it may be too late to save VMS.
> 
> We can always hope they'll release the source code for some earlier 
> version, such as 7.3.  Then we can have some fun.
> 

There already exists a Macro32 compiler, used on both Alpha and itanic.  Don't know what 
language it's written in, but with recent trends, probably (hock, spit) C.

Same argument for Bliss.

Just being able to compile the code probably isn't the only requirements.  There is most 
likely some things that depend upon the underlying hardware.  That's a conservative 
assumption to make.

Not going to try to guess what all the problems might be, but, I've got to think that it's 
not just a complete re-write.