[FreeVMS] Wanted

[Renee]

Macro32 was part of VMS. I was not around when 64 bit vms was.

Bliss32 is on the User pack.

Renee 

 

From: FreeVMS [mailto:freevms-bounces at rayleigh.systella.fr] On Behalf Of
Denis Reichert
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 2:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [FreeVMS] Wanted

 

Le 13/06/2013 10:44, BERTRAND Joël a écrit :

    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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Hello
I worked as a low level system programmer a long time ago but when I look
today at LIB$ sources, F11 assembler manual, all this is still familiar to
me.
I have never understood why ODS-like file versioning is not implemented into
recent filesystems.
About web pages, is it not better to open a WordPress blog which is more
modern, attractive, interactive and collaborative ?

Regards

Denis

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