[Info-vax] VMS porting/rewrite, was: Re: [OT] Wirth style languages, was: Re: Obscure Ada compiler vendors?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-04-11, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2013-04-10 20:40, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>
>> I started out with VMS in the 5.x era; before that I was in the PDP-11
>> world.
>
> If that was in RSX-land, then you should definitely have seen ACPs. All 
> basic file operations goes through the ACP, and the ACP could actually 
> use any kind of file system underneath, with the caveats I mentioned before.
> (It is unfortunate that some details are transparent enough that higher 
> layers can go around parts of the ACP if they feel like it, and they do...)
>

My work place experience was with RSTS/E only, unfortunately.

For the other OS's, I do have the public documentation (from Bitsavers)
and the publicly available kits released along with the hobbyist license.
I have not done anything serious with them however, although I do remember
finding the parts of the RSX design I read about and played with
interesting.

BTW, did your post Mentec hobbyist talks ever get anywhere ?

Simon.

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