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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-03-10, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>
> It would look like VMS, but because of all the
> "improvements" then a lot of existing VMS stuff would
> not run as expected.
>

That depends on how much existing VMS application code bypasses the
documented APIs and tries using the private/undocumented memory
locations and functions.

> It makes sense to have VMS be VMS.
>
> It makes sense to create something new.
>
> But something that is mostly but not fully
> VMS I do not see any demand for.
>

People said that about Linux in the early days when comparing it to Unix...

> It will be like demand for an almost C
> compiler.
>

In the same way that Linux was an almost Unix when it started ?

Simon.

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