10 Jun
2009
10 Jun
'09
12:29 p.m.
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 12:25 +0100, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 23:46 -0400, Patrick Finnegan
wrote:
There's FreeVMS at http://www.freevms.net. Its pretty early and its
based off of linux, so YMMV.
On Tuesday 09 June 2009, Dave McGuire wrote:
I'm surprised there hasn't been an open-source clone of VMS yet.
There's a pretty much functional open-source clone of BeOS, a pretty
much functional open-source clone of Windows, and more open-source
Unix-alikes than you could shake quite a large stick at. There's even a
fairly "early days yet" OS/2 clone - anyone fancy porting it to a PDP11?
Maybe I haven't looked hard enough for VMS.
Gordon
On Jun 9, 2009, at 11:24 PM, William Donzelli
wrote:
Probably because its usage is going down over time? I can't be
completely sure, but I'm willing to bet that if HP ported it to
x86/amd64 instead of ia64, it would have had a better chance of holding
ground. > Not only supported, but still under very
active development!
It is still a sinking ship, unfortunately.
Why is that? Because it's not Windows?