[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 5/31/2012 8:48 AM, JKB wrote:
> Le Thu, 31 May 2012 12:42:12 +0000 (UTC),
> Phillip Helbig---undress to reply<helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de>  écrivait :
>> In article<slrnjseja2.ul.jkb at rayleigh.systella.fr>, JKB
>> <jkb at koenigsberg.invalid>  writes:
>>> 	Ten years ago, I have started with some other VMS addicts this kind
>>> 	of project.
>>
>> But doesn't this illustrate the problem?  10 years is a long time in IT,
>> and there is no usable VMS clone to come out of this.
>
> 	It illustrates only one problem. Someone want to see VMS running on
> 	x86, but nobody want to write the first line of this OS.
>
> 	JKB
>

If someone DID write a VMS clone, I suspect that there would still be 
intellectual property issues with it!

Face it!  There are not sufficient paying customers for VMS to stimulate 
someone to write and support "New VMS".  I don't think that there ever 
will be sufficient customers.