[FreeVMS] Developing FreeVMS

[Roar Thronæs]

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, [UTF-8] Vicious Spike wrote:

> This is my first post on this list. I wanted to know how can I get
> started developing FreeVMS? I have worked on operating system kernels
> previously,written my own and on different microkernel and
> monolithic, but I want to work on this OS. I have heard good things
> about VMS OS but never have used it. I know C/C++ and x86 Assembly. I
> would really love to contribute to it but how can I get started?

Starting totally from scratch may be stepwise.

To get a free VMS account:
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Midrange/VMS/
Shell_Providers/
(did a google on free openvms account).
There may be other offers.

Read misc manuals:
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/os83_index.html

To get in place basic functionality:
See the freevms/LITERATURE file from the tarball.

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Regards,
Roar Thronæs