[FreeVMS] [Fwd: freevms] For informations

[BERTRAND Joël]

> The new mailing started in October 2001, while some of his oldest files
> are from March 1997 (according to his timeline).
> Maybe he was referring to the previous list, which died 2000?

	I think too.

> > so I went on ahead with my ideas.  I've thought of taking my OS and just
> > making VMS-like calls to its guts.  It has ast's, event flags, logical
> > names, etc.
> > 
> > One thing also that stopped me from doing a true VMS clone is the x86's
> > only have 2 usable protection modes, user and kernel.  Real VMS uses four.
> >  What did you do to get around this?
> 
> Actually, this is still at the planning stage.
> You can have four modes with segmentation, so I suppose it might be possible
> by using that (with 4G segment size).
> Or just store the mode in the same data structure that has ipl.
> 
> > I don't know what you mean by help with the CPU.  I know x86's and Alphas
> > quite well, maybe you can tell me what you need done.  As far as stuff
> > like REMQTI, etc, they could be done as INT calls or something like that,
> > is that what you're getting at?
> 
> Mainly implement PAL properly (as described in VARM/AARM).
> 
> > You can take my EDT if you want (it runs under my os, linux and real vms).
> >  I noticed it at the bottom of your list.  It's fairly true to the
> > original.
> > 
> > Mike
> 
> Is he subscribed here?

	No, I have verified, but I will send this mail to the mailing
	list and to him.

	Regards,

	JKB