[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2018-05-17 15:44, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <pdikq7$9dc$2 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>>
>> Claiming that VMS becomes Unix just because it is ported to x86 would
>> suggest a very poor understanding of what VMS actually is.
> 
>     I think the OP was actually harping on the notion of getting a lot of
>     tools on VMS that are already available on UNIX.

Even that would not make it a Unix. VMS was already certified Posix 
compliant back in the DEC days. Noone even suggested that making it a 
Unix. Having a bunch of useful tools certainly does not change what the 
OS is, or provide.

>     But having used many gnu tools on VMS in the past, I hitnk he's just
>     displaying massive ignorance or a complete disrespect for reality.

That could be.

	Johnny

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