[Info-vax] VMS device drivers

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-01-12, Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell at munted.eu> wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-01-12 at 01:46 +0000, Gary Sparkes wrote:
>> I'm highly waiting on this, while testing some devices and code in
>> Alpha and Itanium systems, for when that floodgate opens. A fair
>> amount of things i'm working on are hardware support for specialty
>> things, and lack of being able to (so far) load my own drivers
>> without some insane steps is... well, putting things on hold for
>> people who're excited to get rid of some older hardware.
>
> I've been told writing drivers for OpemVMS/x86 is an insane process!

Even more so than writing one for Alpha ?

If so, how did they manage to make the process even more insane ?

Simon.

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