[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[Bob Koehler]

In article <fefb398b-b9ee-439f-ac13-967d32e47d75 at gw9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>, John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> 
> This "not really bare metal" OS will (presumably, as it's a thin
> layer) not have the error recovery and diagnosis features which VMS
> users have come to expect, right? If an intermittent disk error
> occurs, how is it diagnosed? VMS managers running VMS on real hardware
> know how. What happens in this environment, is there an error log in
> the "not really bare metal" OS? Or does that kind of diagnosis in this
> kind of environment require telepathetic skills?

   It's been a long time since the disks themselves have hidden that
   information from VMS.

   A thin layer of anything could mess up VMS' real-time capabilities
   mightily.  But the owner has long since stopped selling VMS to any
   market that cares.