[Info-vax] report of the last "rendez-vous autour de VMS" (2-FEB-2024)

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/19/2024 6:13 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 10:01:17 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> The bad thing is that
>> some of this can be tricky if the desired functionality is based on *nix
>> system design and does not really fit well with VMS system design.
> 
> The reality is that *nix (particularly Linux) has become the de-facto
> standard for an OS layer. Even Microsoft has been forced to accept this,
> hence the introduction of WSL.
> 
> Could VSI come up with a WSL equivalent?

MS invented WSL to allow developers to build and test Linux
applications on Windows.

VSI has no interest in trying to make developers
build and test Linux applications their code on VMS.

Arne