[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-07-20, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 7/20/2023 8:20 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>
>> It doesn't take 9 years to port Linux to a brand-new architecture, even
>> if you first have to implement the compilers for that brand-new architecture.
>
> Not the same thing at all.
>

Why ? I'm talking about how long it is taking.

> For those with Linux apps, there are already platforms that can be used.  The 
> same cannot be said for VMS.  So VMS has additional needs, as in needed, and 
> just might be more work.  Linux however, just isn't needed on additional platforms.
>
> I can also imagine a "brand-new architecture" where a port of Linux just might 
> not be so easy.
>

People didn't have much of a problem getting it onto RISC-V, which is
indeed a brand-new architecture that also needed major compiler work.

Simon.

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