5 Jan
2002
5 Jan
'02
4:28 a.m.
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Pat Finnegan wrote:
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Boatman on the River of Suck
wrote:
No, binary compatibility between a VAX running FreeVMS and one running
VMS.
Peace... Sridhar
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Matthew Sell wrote:
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). 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.