[Info-vax] BSDs vs Linux (was Re: New CEO of VMS Software)

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at nz.invalid
Tue Jan 16 16:23:00 EST 2024


On Tue, 16 Jan 2024 13:33:58 -0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley wrote:

> However, when he is not making some crazy out of touch
> comments, such as replicating the VMS APIs on Linux work ...

Consider that the entirety of the VMS APIs add up to only a tiny fraction 
of the Windows APIs. Yet an emulation layer for Windows (WINE) has been 
successfully built on Linux, and is actually seeing some production use.

And this was done with only a fraction of the resources available to VSI.



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