[Info-vax] decc$stat() variants on VMS.

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 7:50:26 AM UTC+12, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> Give folks something to move forward to, and to look forward to.   When 
> you have to make a choice, make that trade-off facing forward.   Not 
> backward.  Preferably — with C — toward C11 and POSIX and better 
> compatibility.

How about building a VMS API layer on top of a Linux kernel? That would give you immediate access to a whole lot of newer hardware, but it can also run on your existing Alpha and Itanium hardware if you want. It should probably take less work than maintaining your own entire OS.

Like WINE does the same thing for bringing Windows APIs to Linux.

What would we call it?

> (Going toward OO APIs is probably a bridge too far, 
> though.)

That option would be available at little or no extra cost.