Subject: Re: VMS ABI emulation under NetBSD
To: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
From: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/15/2002 23:22:40
>         1) VMS's shared library mapping technique wouldn't
>            work under NetBSD.

How is it special?
Remeber we don't have to do everything like VMS we just have to behave
so that VMS programs run, that's a big difference.

>         3) The I/O system is based on a multi-threaded asynchronous
>            I/O model (the QIO) which could not be emulated in the
>            current I/O layer.

Why not? Could you explain the differencies?

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