Subject: Re: VMS ABI emulation under NetBSD
To: John Klos <john@sixgirls.org>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/15/2002 14:03:39
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, John Klos wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 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?

I tried finding a good description of the format of the image once (ragge
asked me), but I failed. But it should be somewhere in the VMS
documentation, it's just that it's a large number of manuals...

> 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.

Hmmm. VMS might be considered more modern than Unix... It certainly is
younger... :-)

	Johnny

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