[Info-vax] C and assembly language, was: Re: WHY IS VSI REQUIRING A HYPERVISOR FOR X86 OPENVMS?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-12-21, Wilm Boerhout <wboerhout-remove at this-gmail.com> wrote:
> John Reagan schreef op 21-12-2020 om 02:55:
>> 
>> "Much"?  I think Clair did a line count/module posting in the last year or so.  The Macro-32 contribution was getting pretty low (less than 20%?)  However, just the difficult and nasty parts that nobody wants to attempt to rewrite.  I'd pay real money to watch somebody try to rewrite the shadow driver out of Macro-32 (pretty much every routine can jump into any other routine in an alternative universe threading scheme).  And I've recently had to look at chunks of DECnet IV and even I couldn't make heads-or-tails out of some of the algorithms.
>> 
>
> Apropos DECnet IV: a bunch of us in the HECnet alternate universe have 
> been running pydecnet (that is, DECnet IV written in python from the 
> original DECnet specifications) for a while now, thanks to Paul Koning's 
> implementation effort ***bows to Paul***
>

$ set response/mode=good_natured

DECnet Phase IV in Python ??? That's just unnatural. ;-)

On a more serious note, I wonder why John was looking at the DECnet
Phase IV code. I wonder if something in there found a problem in the
new compilers ?

Simon.

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