[Info-vax] OpenVMS development tooling

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/27/2021 10:24 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 12:41:28 PM UTC+13, chris wrote:
>> We wish. I wouldn't inflict X86 architecture on my worst enemy,
>> assuming I had one...
> 
> I used to laugh at the 8086/80286 segmentation system, while I basked
> in programming in the large, linear address space on 680x0-based
> Apple Macs. I didn’t laugh quite as much as Motorola’s CPU market
> share shrank and x86 became more and more popular, but there you go.
> 
> These days, I understand AMD64 is quite reasonably designed, with a
> useful number of registers.
> 
> But then again, with Open Source, the exact architecture doesn’t
> matter as much. It’s easier to port such code across different
> instruction sets, while the proprietary vendors have a hard time.

The license means absolutely nothing for the porting effort.

Programming language and other things matter.

Arne