[Info-vax] FreeAXP/Avanti 2.2.0.435 Released

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In article <507f2a2a$0$11361$c3e8da3$50776f34 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>On 12-10-17 17:10, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>
>> I've ported 100s of VAX applications, utilities, drivers, etc. to Alpha.
>> I've never found anything difficult or impossible, and I never found a 
>> single bit of VAX software that was not portable.
>
>Try porting VAX applications that made use of Message Router callable
>interface.  Since the later was not ported to Alpha, it becomes prety
>hard to port your apps to Alpha.

However, that's not a pure "technical" reason for why an application cannot
be ported.  That's simply a reliance on a third-party application, utility
or library that has not been ported.  I'd wager that Message Router *could*
have been easily ported.

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