[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[Michael Kraemer]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply schrieb:

> While I'm willing to believe that a Finnish student could write a unix 
> kernel in a few weeks, I fail to see how even a large group---say 100 
> people working full time---could even hope to come up with something 
> which looks like VMS.  Think of all the resources which went into 
> creating VMS in the first place.

Linux' success isn't due to just a few weeks student work,
but rather to the efforts of a lot more people, doing it
in their leisure time (at least initially).
It also took almost a decade until it was remotely usable.
Another crucial difference to VMS is, that Linux work started when
Unix started to take off in the market.
This gave a lot of motivation to (otherwise unrewarded) developers.
Now what's the incentive to clone an OS as dead as VMS?