[Info-vax] A portable VMS, was: Re: OS Ancestry

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 5/18/21 2:33 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-05-17, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 5/17/2021 3:12 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>
>>> Imagine if, for example, RMS had been designed in a world where C was
>>> the lowest level instead of Macro-32. You would not need any of the
>>> 32-bit versus 64-bit RMS APIs (it would be just one API at source code
>>> level) and your program would either be a pure 32-bit application or a
>>> pure 64-bit application.
>>
>> Note that there is no such thing as 32 bit and 64 bit mode on VMS.
>>
> 
> VAX. Which is where VMS started (and 32-bit processors are where Unix
> and Linux started). 

PDP-7?  PDP-11?


bill