[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[JKB]

Le Thu, 31 May 2012 09:08:59 -0600,
Keith Parris <keithparris_deletethis at yahoo.com> écrivait :
> On 5/24/2012 11:35 AM, JF Mezei wrote:
>> The only aspect the community can do is convince HP to announce it will
>> open source VMS on the day it announces the end of the line for iA64 VMS
>> and HP-UX.
>
> OpenMPE was unable to convince HP to open-source MPE code after its EOL 
> announcement. 3rd-party support organizations were allowed licenses only 
> to view the MPE code, not to modify or redistribute it. I suspect there 
> would be no better outcome with OpenVMS.
>
> And based on the feedback I've heard at user group events in the past, 
> some OpenVMS users, particularly those concerned about security, don't 
> want the OpenVMS code exposed to everyone, including potential hackers. 
> Security by obscurity isn't the best security, but it does make things 
> harder for most potential attackers to a degree that makes a difference 
> in the real world.
>
> And even if the actual VMS code were released to Open Source, what you'd 
> have is a kernel written in mostly Macro, with some Bliss and C, 
> utilities and RTLs in mostly Bliss, and no Bliss or Macro compiler for 
> any other architecture. Perhaps the community could write Bliss and 
> Macro front ends for gcc or something, but it seems to me that would be 
> the only way to make the existing OpenVMS source code usable.

	No. You have to rewrite all low level routines also. And this
	operation is very huge.

	JKB

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