FreeVMS

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Sat Jan 5 07:02:54 2002

At 11:14 AM 4/01/2002 -0600, 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.

At what sort of level do you want the "look and feel" to be at. If it's
just DCL then this might not be so difficult, but once you want to add the
OpenVMS API (system services, libraries, I/O, SMP, Clustering) it would be
exceedingly difficult to take a Unix core and add all this in a compatible
way so that some of the programs I tend to write would work. I guess you're
going to try to make a FreeVMS for VAX clone, emulating 64 bits on a 32 bit
machine would be a project killer from the start.

I really think if you want VMS buy a VAX or an Alpha (there are lots of
cheap, small systems around - I have a VLC4000, DEC2000 and a PWS500au that
cost less than AUD$1000 in total and the 500au was most of the cost).

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