[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Monday, October 18, 2021 at 8:38:42 AM UTC+13, Simon Clubley wrote:
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> Some reading for you Lawrence: 
> 
> https://sector7.com/

Are you trying to prove it can’t be done, or that it can?

Hmm, I can’t seem to find any mention of VMS terminal driver emulation. Even I can figure out how to do that...

Or subprocess semantics, for that matter.

Or DECnet. Or PPFs.

> Yet, even though these alternatives existed at the start of the port 
> of VMS to x86-64, there was still sufficient customer demand for a 
> "real" VMS on x86-64. 

Maybe the technical quality of their solution is not up to scratch (as per the issues above). Or maybe the issues are not technical, but marketing.

> The above should also give you a feeling for the scale of the issues 
> involved. And unlike your hand waving dismissal of the difficult issues ...

I haven’t handwaved anything. I’ve been quite prepared to give detailed, considered answers to detailed, considered questions.

> these people have actually thought about the difficult issues and 
> provided answers for some of them.

And maybe they missed some ...