[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[JKB]

Le 31 May 2012 09:35:17 -0500,
Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> écrivait :
> 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.

	And why ?

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