[Info-vax] Reimplementing VMS, was: Re: HP adds OpenVMS Mature Product Support beyond the end of Standard Support

[BillPedersen]

On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 10:57:15 AM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> Which leads us to the question:  Why is there not already a group
> working on an Open Source Complete VMS API capable of running on
> top of any POSIX infrastructure?  This would allow to pick their
> underlying architecture based on their needs, be it: Linux, BSD,
> Solaris, Mach, whatever.  Seesm this would make more sense than
> the current "porting project" that meets several times a month.
> And could be accomplished by pretty much the same people.
> 

What "porting project"?  

If you are referencing the Open Source on OpenVMS effort then your are mistaken as to the plan and direction there. It has nothing to do with porting OpenVMS or creating an "VMS-like" environment.

It is oriented toward porting open source code TO VMS.

Bill.