[Info-vax] OpenVMS development tooling

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 8:54:29 PM UTC+13, dgso... at gmail.com wrote:
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> On Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 11:15:19 AM UTC+13, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: 
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>> You know what else is in the current Linux source tree
>> <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch>,
>> besides SPARC? HP PA-RISC! And Motorola 68K!
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> I'd argue there is little value in having a modern Linux kernel on such systems too.

Nevertheless, they exist. And your excuses just reinforce my point, that it is so much easier for an open-source OS to be portable than a proprietary one. And to cope with different workloads, including those that might still make sense on such old hardware.