[Info-vax] OpenVMS development tooling

[Dave Froble]

On 9/30/2021 9:41 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 8:54:29 PM UTC+13, dgso... at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 11:15:19 AM UTC+13, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> 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!
>>
>> 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.
>

A purpose built OS will normally be better than a jack-of-all-trades. 
Perhaps not always.  So it is reasonable to find such a bit, or a lot, 
harder to move to another environment.

And, who cares?

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