[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Ahem A Rivet's Shot]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 08:26:33 -0500
Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:

> On 11/16/2023 6:38 AM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

> > 	It's never going to be portable to anything but Linux, that's
> > enough to write it off for me.
> 
> Is it surprising that a startup system for Linux
> is coupled with Linux?

	Yes given that Linux purports to be a unix which has always had
portability as a major feature. You can use SysV or BSD init (Linux used to
use SysV init) on Linux or any other unix quite easily. You cannot use
systemd on anything unix than Linux - and yes there are still many unix
systems that are not Linux.

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