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

[Keith Parris]

On 2/4/2014 8:57 AM, 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.  Seems 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.

The goal of the UNIX Portability Initiative, aka OpenVMS Open Source and 
UNIX Portability Project, which Bill Pedersen has been very active in, 
is the opposite of what it appears you're thinking -- its goal is to 
make it easier to port Open Source and UNIX software so it can run on 
the proprietary OpenVMS operating system.