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

[Paul Sture]

On 2014-02-04, Keith Parris <keithparris_deletethis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
      ^^^^^^^^^^^

Oops, you used the dirty word there.

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Paul Sture