[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[Neil Rieck]

On May 30, 9:53 am, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <qcKdnRmnLMttzljSnZ2dnUVZ_jedn... at insightbb.com>, "John Reagan" <johnrrea... 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.

I fully agree! It's all just software after all. IIRC, VMS strings are
similar to (but not identical to) Pascal strings so any system
supporting Pascal can be made to support VMS strings.

NSR