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

[Dave Froble]

On 3/12/2020 3:28 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2020-03-12, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
>> No different in your unix/C world or did the Eunuchs geniuses
>> devise some way to stuff 64 bits into a byte... er, excuse me, char?
>>
>
> The use of C in Unix meant it was far easier to convert the existing
> 32-bit Unix code to run in a 64-bit environment and to do it in a way
> that was compatible with existing 32-bit environments when the same
> modified code was compiled once again in 32-bit mode.

Assuming people declared pointers instead of 32 bit words ....


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