[FreeVMS] Wanted

[Renee]

Hi joel,

I have worked in VMS development for about 4.5 years in Nashua and did HBS.
I'd like to help.
Renee

-----Original Message-----
From: FreeVMS [mailto:freevms-bounces at rayleigh.systella.fr] On Behalf Of
BERTRAND Joël
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 5:45 AM
To: freevms at systella.fr
Subject: [FreeVMS] Wanted

	Hello,

	I have checked this morning and there are more than 1000 subscribers
to this mailing list (even with hp.com mail address). HP says that, today,
it remains only 2500 OpenVMS customers. Thus, a lot of VMS users read this
mailing list.

	Development was stalled for two years because I don't want to
continue alone. I'll restart this project if and only if new contributers
support parts of this OS. Haiku, ReactOS, Linux, *BSD are much more complex
than a clone of VMS over microkernel and are actively developed for years.
If we cannot found some developers to participate to this project, I suppose
that OpenVMS will be definitely dead when HP will stop support.

	I have shown that it is possible to write a kernel as a sum if L4
servers. 0.4 boots until process management but as pager is missing, it
cannot launch tasks in virtual memory (sigma0 only maps physical memory in
virtual memory without address translation).

	Now, HP has announced OpenVMS death. I don't think that OpenVMS will
be opensourced, and even if HP opensources OpenVMS, there will be a lot of
stuff to obtain a usable operating system (Bliss, Macro32 and 64 have to be
ported on new architectures). I'm not sure that rewrite a new OS is more
difficult.

	Today, FreeVMS 0.4 requires :
- a pager (FreeVMS/sources/freevms/vm/vm_pager.c)
- some drivers (console, hard disk, network)
- a swapper
- a command line
- some volunteers to keep webpages alive.

	If anyone is interested, please answer to this mail. With more than
5 new and active developers, I think we can restart this project.

	Regards,

	JKB
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