[Info-vax] inertia or fundamentals about langages?

[Tim Sneddon]

Hans Vlems <jhlmvlems at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoff,
> You wrote
> ???As for OpenVMS ports, I've seen three of those from the inside.  Two 
> more???RSX-11M to VAX/VMS, and this current x86-64 port???from the outside. 
>  Each had clever bits.  I found the Mach port to be the most clever. ???
> 
> Could you elaborate on the last sentence please?
> 

This is likely what Hoff is referring to:

https://mirrors.pdp-11.ru/_vms/doc/usenix_vms-on-mach.pdf

It is a really good read.  Quite an interesting integration of VMS into
a micro-kernel based environment.  Had this actually gone somewhere it
would definitely have been interesting to see it swapped out for
something like L4 in the long-term.

Regards, Tim.