[Info-vax] OpenVMS development tooling

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at 1:55:39 AM UTC+13, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
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> On 9/27/2021 10:24 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: 
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>> 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.
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> The license means absolutely nothing for the porting effort. 

Real-world experience shows otherwise. Consider that Linux and the GNU toolset are available across something like two dozen different major processor architectures -- basically about one new architecture for every year Linux has been in existence.

For comparison, Windows NT, arguably the most successful of the proprietary OSes, was supposed to be portable across multiple architectures, yet every one of its non-x86 ports has failed.

And as for VMS? Still struggling further behind.