[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[Bob Koehler]

In article <125b1437-e8e0-4cc6-8473-9aefee6b7e6b at 37g2000yqu.googlegroups.com>, Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
> 
> 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.

   A Turing machine could be made to support passing strings by
   descriptor.

   And Pascal string implementation does vary with the compiler.