FreeVMS

At 11:14 AM 4/01/2002 -0600, Matthew Sell wrote: 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). Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)kerberos.davies.net.au | "If God had wanted soccer played in the | air, the sky would be painted green"