[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[JKB]

Le Thu, 31 May 2012 12:55:05 +0000 (UTC),
Phillip Helbig---undress to reply <helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de> écrivait :
> In article <slrnjseq4s.ul.jkb at rayleigh.systella.fr>, JKB
><jkb at koenigsberg.invalid> writes: 
>
>> > 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.
>
> I'm willing to do it.  Give me what Hoff, Goldstein etc had back in the 
> day: a permanent job where I'm paid to develop VMS, enough resources to 
> do so, a big enough team to make it happen within a reasonable time.  
> Wanting to do it is not enough.  One has to have the resources.  Again, 
> maybe unix can be done in one's spare time, but not VMS.
>
> How many lines of code is VMS?

	No more than a regular Unix system.

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