Subject: RE: VMS ABI emulation under NetBSD
To: 'John Klos' <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Gregg C Levine <hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/15/2002 01:38:59
Hello from Gregg C Levine
No. Not me. But a group based in France, has been trying to create a VMS
like overlay to work on top of, say, Linux. But it is not going anywhere
special.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-vax-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-vax-owner@netbsd.org] On
Behalf
> Of John Klos
> Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 12:53 AM
> To: port-vax@netbsd.org
> Cc: manu@netbsd.org
> Subject: VMS ABI emulation under NetBSD
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> I've never seen this discussed, and I have a feeling I'm going to
start a
> long thread here, but has anyone examined the feasibility of running
VMS
> binaries under NetBSD?
>=20
> This may sound like blasphemy to certain people, but some VMS users
might
> benefit from being able to run their applications under a more modern
OS
> and/or integrate it with (free) Unix software.
>=20
> John Klos