[Info-vax] Creating an open source version of VMS, was: Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Dave Froble]

On 3/10/2020 6:50 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 3/10/2020 5:41 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 3/10/2020 9:57 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> On 3/10/20 9:21 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>> Something that did occur to me:
>>>>
>>>> I wonder, if someone tried to create an open source version of VMS
>>>> from public documentation only, if VSI would somehow try to suppress
>>>> development of it.
>
>>> It was tried more than a decade ago.  How far it got and how
>>> successful it was should be obvious by this point.  I have
>>> often thought about a clones for the PDP-11 OSes which are
>>> much simpler and have never gotten anywhere on that either.
>>
>> First you'd need a design, then it's simply a matter of coding.
>>
>> Maybe I don't have the "right attitude".  At this point in my life I
>> can use VMS for "real work" and WEENDOZE for email and browsing.  I
>> don't have the drive for more.  Aviation is much more fun.
>
> Yes. Design + coding.
>
> 20 million lines of code => more than 20000 man months of effort

For RSTS?  I doubt it.

Don't know about RSX.

The real question.  What language?

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