[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[Bob Koehler]

In article <qcKdnRmnLMttzljSnZ2dnUVZ_jednZ2d at insightbb.com>, "John Reagan" <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> writes:

> The 
> ability in BASIC, COBOL, etc. to build OpenVMS descriptors wouldn't be found 
> in any other variant for x86.

   An OpenVMS descriptor is a fully documented data structure, and I'm
   not sure I've ever seen an HLL where I couldn't build it.

   On the other hand, I've yet to find out how to build actual data
   structures in Lisp, other than the built-in cons cell.