FreeVMS

From: Boatman on the River of Suck <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Sat Jan 5 12:28:06 2002

On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Pat Finnegan wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Boatman on the River of Suck wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Matthew Sell wrote:
> >
> > > >be possible to do one of the following options:
> > > >
> > > >1) Stick an 'emulation' user-mode shell on top of some free *nix
> > > >
> > > >2) Take a stock free *nix kernel, and modify it to work more like VMS.
> > >
> > > That was the idea. I thought of taking FreeBSD, and add device drivers for
> > > peripherals and filesystems, as well as implementing the "shell".
> > >
> > > I do have various VAXen to test this on.
> >
> > You might be able to get the feel of VMS, but getting all the neat
> > features of VMS (decnet, clustering, binary compatibility) would be highly
> > problematic. Plus administration would be a completely different animal.
>
> Binary compatibility between a peecee running 'FreeVMS' (one
> possibility for hardware and OpenVMS on a VAX/Alpha??? I know I didn't
> mean that, and I don't think that the author did either. I was thinking
> of this as being something to let you run pseudo-VMS on something cheap
> but relatively fast (peecee or whatever).

No, binary compatibility between a VAX running FreeVMS and one running
VMS.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Sat Jan 05 2002 - 12:28:06 GMT