[Info-vax] VSI: "Official 8.4-1H1 Launch"

[JF Mezei]

On 15-06-04 06:53, clairgrant71 at gmail.com wrote:

>  I had a slide once that depicted 5% of VMS knows about the platform and the other 95% does not. 
> Once you get the compilers and the 5% working you get the rest for free.

That assumes that all the compilers needed to build VMS are ported to
the new platform, of course.

Are there instances when the engineers may decide it is easier to
rewrite the few remaining utilities based on language X rather than port
compiler X ?