[Info-vax] VMS-based distributed computing project?

[Craig A. Berry]

On 3/14/15 10:59 PM, Steven Schweda wrote:
>      Back in '06, I tried to get the (then) new BOINC code to
> work on VMS, without much success.  The C RTL lacked (and, I
> believe still lacks) support for the UNIX shared memory
> functions

System V shared memory functions came along in the 8.4 era:

http://www.deltatelecom.ru/sys$common/syshlp/SHARED_MEMORY_APIS_IN_OPENVMS_CRTL.TXT

> and UNIX sockets.

An emulated form of these came along in TCPIP 5.7 ECO2. It wasn't
documented anywhere except the release notes and you had to scrounge for
a un.h, which may have been added by a later ECO.