[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[Bob Koehler]

In article <slrnjse7if.ul.jkb at rayleigh.systella.fr>, JKB <jkb at koenigsberg.invalid> writes:
> 
> 	That's why VMS should not be ported on x86, but on top of a real
> 	microkernel. L4 is a good candidate as it is compact and simple. If
> 	you want to port your OS on another processor, you only has to port
> 	microkernel (and toolchain).

   Port VMS to the hardware and you get the behaviour of VMS.

   Rewrite the VMS kernel and APIs to sit on top of a micro-kernel and you 
   get some other behaviour, limitted by what the micro-kernel can do.

   There are a great many applications that won't care.  And some that
   will.