[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:36:41 +1200, David Goodwin wrote:

> Why go to all the effort reimplementing the whole
> Linux syscall interface and keeping it up-to-date when you could just
> run the Linux kernel in a VM.

Because that was what the whole “personality” system was supposed to be 
for. In practice, it didn’t work.

> Are you trying to argue that moving code out of the kernel into
> userspace is a bad idea?

It would have been great if they could have implemented the Linux API that 
way, wouldn’t it? But they couldn’t do it.