[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Richard Kettlewell]

Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo at eircom.net> writes:
> 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.

Portability to different CPUs, sure, but portability of system tools to
other kernels? Who ever said that was a goal of Linux as such?

(Some of them _are_ somewhat portable, and the GNU project in
particulary lists tool portability as a goal, albeit with some nuance,
but that’s not the same thing.)

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