[Info-vax] bootcamp ?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <slrnkni8bl.k6n.jkb at rayleigh.systella.fr>,
	JKB <jkb at koenigsberg.invalid> writes:
> Le 25 Apr 2013 12:07:11 GMT,
> Bill Gunshannon <bill at server1.cs.uofs.edu> écrivait :
>> In article <slrnkni3na.k6n.jkb at rayleigh.systella.fr>,
>> 	JKB <jkb at koenigsberg.invalid> writes:
>>> Le Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:46:08 +0200,
>>> MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> écrivait :
>>>> On 25-apr-2013 12:34, JKB wrote:
>>>>> 	This open-sourced VMS only waits for active developers...
>>>>> 	http://www.freevms.net.
>>>>
>>>> No, it isn't.  It's merely a Linux kernel-based operating system
>>>> with a VMS(-like) 'look and feel', mainly offering a CLI that
>>>> should closely resemble DCL.
>>> 
>>> 	Linux ? Certainly not. 0.4 was built on a microkernel.
>>
>> It's still closer to Unix than VMS.
> 
> 	Nope. L4 doesn't contain unixism. It's not a mach or a NVU
> 	microkernel. Microkernel documentation is available here
> 	http://http://www.l4ka.org/projects/pistachio/ (X.2) and you don't
> 	find any unixism inside.

When I have time I will look, but I also think it is safe to say you
don't find any VMSism inside it either.  So, the fact is, it will
still not be VMS under the hood and that is what makes people stay
with VMS.

bill
 

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