FreeVMS

From: Boatman on the River of Suck <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Fri Jan 4 22:53:08 2002

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Matthew Sell wrote:

> Don't forget that FreeBSD already runs on the VAX, and FreeVMS (in my
> project concept) would be an extension and implementation of the existing
> FreeBSD kernel so that it "looks and feels" like VMS.

NetBSD works better on the VAX. I suggest that you check it out. It runs
on a far wider variety of hardware than FreeBSD.

> I also wanted this implementation of FreeBSD to use native DEC filesystems
> and operate classic DEC hardware.

Depends on what you mean by "classic". If you want to do UNIX on PDP-11,
2.11BSD is probably your best bet. On VAX, it's probably NetBSD. But VMS
is quite a bit nicer on VAX than UNIX is, IMHO.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Fri Jan 04 2002 - 22:53:08 GMT