[FreeVMS] Question

[Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson]

On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Renee <rmctwo at gmail.com> wrote:
> And the embarrassing thing is that I may have asked it before. Obviously we
> are not building a VAX. We can make this thing “source compatible” to be
> recompiled. And I don’t think a privileged or even a CMKRNL task would work.
> With that in mind, I’ll ask again….what are we building? Certainly some form
> of DCL can and must be built.

And that task is quite independent of the kernel.  DCL is a shell and
can be written in C on top of Posix interfaces.  I'm not advocating
that, only pointing out it's an option.

In between DCL and the kernel are the LIB$ and other VMS interfaces.
These interfaces can be written on top of pretty much any kernel.   At
least when we have the option to modify the kernel too.

The kernel itself is then a layer between the hardware and system
interfaces and provides services such as ODS.

That said, I'm not up to speed on the details of what's been done
kernel or interface wise so far.


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Johann

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