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

[Bob Eager]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:35:22 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:

> The modern BSDs: yes, I certainly agree
> 
> VMS: no way
> 
> Any so-called modular interfaces within VMS have no real benefit to the
> end-user. It's one of the things which could be massively improved in a
> VMS built using modern concepts.
> 
> For example, you can't remove a driver after it's loaded, you can't plug
> a new filesystem into the XQP and from what I can tell, anything you can
> add via an ACP is an undocumented mess which needs access to the VMS
> source code to even begin to understand how to do it.

Some drivers could be removed. And I was thinking 'modular' in terms of 
loading different code for different VAX models.

But I agree there is a lot that is messy. I have had experience of 
writing drivers that work with their own ACP!

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