[Info-vax] Alternative _legal_ operating systems for VAX ?

[Scott Dorsey]

Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>On 2022-01-02, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
>> Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>Sadly, language has little to do with it.  Too  much of the
>>>DEC stuff is still proprietary and trade secret locked.  Last
>>>I heard that was the reason why neither NetBSD or OpenBSD ever
>>>had a functioning X11.
>>
>> Ever had a functioning X11 _server_.  The clients work just fine,
>> it's just that the DEC framebuffers are nontrivial to develop a
>> display server for given the available documentation.
>
>Someone added basic framebuffer support to simh, and it does mostly
>work ok with VAX/VMS. It's been a while but I do remember being able
>to get a DECwindows display running under simh (although there might
>have been some mouse issues (I can't remember for sure)).

Yes.  But it's harder the other way around.
--scott

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