[Info-vax] Intel proposal to simplify x86-64

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/13/2023 10:14 AM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-06-13 at 09:04 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> I am sure they wish that .NET was available on VMS.   :-)
> 
> Mono, the open source equivalent of .NET is easily portable to new
> architectures.

AFAIK then Mono is the open source equivalent of closed
source .NET Fx 1.x-4.x while latest and greatest is the
open source .NET Core 1.x-3.x & .NET 5+ flavor.

Unless one has special requirements like .NET Fx compatibility
then .NET 6 would be the obvious target (6 is LTS, 7 is not).

But maybe it is easier to get Mono running than .NET 5+.

Anyway it is certainly not trivial.

The library is huge and as we all know then code working on Linux
does not always work on VMS.

And if speed is required then JIT in the CLR is needed.

> Now if only VSI could write a graphical driver for use in Virtualbox
> and others then we could in theory be able to use DecWindows instead of
> using X11 remotely.

I always believed relative few VMS users used graphics.

But there has been several questions from VMS x86-64
testers.

Arne