[Info-vax] compile for VAX 8650 system

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-06-08 kl. 03:41, skrev Scott Dorsey:
> IanN  <imniklason at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the reply Stephen. The OS running on the current system is VAXEL=
>> N, do you think OpenVMS will still work?=20
>
> Well, that pretty much changes everything, and you might want to have said
> that in the first place.
>
> Basically, VaxELN is an embedded operating system, like the OS you have
> running on your washing machine or microwave oven.  It has no user interface.
> It has no compilers.
>
> You write the code on a VMS machine with a cross compiler, build a VaxELN
> executable with your code linked in, and boot the client machine off it.
>
> You can't modify anything on the VaxELN client.... you would have to have
> the host machine running with all the source on it in order to build a new
> binary to boot.
>
> VaxELN was a very cool realtime system, but there weren't many people using
> it and there are very few people who actually know it.  DEC didn't really
> like supporting it 30 years ago, and finding any support for it today is
> probably out of the question.
> --scott
>

A guy, who earlier worked with the same customer as I, has another
factory nearby where the factory is run using systems with VAXELN.
Quite a large company producing kitchen appliances/white goods...