[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/31/22 09:02, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-01-31, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>
>> I would run Solaris on SPARC and I do run VMS on Alpha
>> and keep Linux on x86-64. Are there any benefits
>> from running Linux on a less common platform?
>>
> 
> One of the reasons Linux has taken off is that you can run it on
> pretty much every single thing that is physically capable of hosting
> it in terms of CPU power and memory/other resources.
> 
> This includes large mainframes all the way down to tiny embedded boards
> running on some custom hardware/architecture.
> 

The same is probably true of just about any OS.  All it takes is
access to the source and a desire by someone to do the work.  Why
do you think I would still like to see the source to RSTS released
into the wild.  RSX which was very PDP-11 specific now has a version
running on later Z80 family processors.  I have it running here at
my home and it works quite well.

bill