[Info-vax] Reimplementing VMS, was: Re: HP adds OpenVMS Mature Product Support beyond the end of Standard Support
David Froble
davef at tsoft-inc.com
Mon Feb 3 20:58:57 EST 2014
John Reagan wrote:
> I've been resisting jumping back in. I only have so many blood pressure pills left, but since John mentioned my name...
Hmmm .... not sure why you need the blood pressure pills. Perhaps learn
to relax and remember the two big rules ....
1) It doesn't matter ....
2) It REALLY doesn't matter ....
However, I'm drawn to ask some question, because as far as I know, and I
don't know anything, like the German Sargent on Hogan's Heros, at least
I seem to remember that being the name, "I know nothing!"
I do have this feeling that you just might be the key individual that
could make a port of VMS to x86 possible. I say that because I feel
that the compilers would be the key thing. As you have possibly been
very involved in the VMS compilers, Macro-32 and Pascal I'm pretty sure,
and possibly others, your knowledge could be the key.
I'm figuring the front ends of the compilers would need little to no
change, since we're not talking about changing the languages. It's the
back end, GEM, that would have to take whatever the front ends produced
and produce something that would run on x86.
I have no idea of just what such would entail.
If it would not raise your blood pressure too much, is there any chance
that you could present some general ideas about feasibility, effort, and
such?
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