[FreeVMS] New enthusiast.

Herb Nowell herb.nowell at gmail.com
Wed Jun 7 22:56:09 CEST 2017


I pulled down what I think were the right sources but haven't had a chance
to try and build.

My VMS years were long ago on the old Delphi service for those who remember
it.  I'm willing to take a swing at the pager and swapper but it could take
me a LOONG time by myself.

On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Guido <guidoj2269 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/06/2017 03:46 PM, BERTRAND Joël wrote:
>
>> L4/X2 was tried as this microkernel doesn't contain any unixisms and is
>> able to create all separated address spaces used by VMS, but 0.4 requires a
>> pager and a swapper and I have no time to write it. If you want to use 0.4,
>> you have to write these two pieces of code.
>>
>
> Just for kicks I cloned the FreeVMS-0.4 git tree, but I am afraid I can
> not get it to build. I already get error messages when trying to run make
> kernelconfig. It seems it requires python 2.x and will not work with python
> 3.x. I have not investigated it any further though.
>
> Regards,
> Guido
>
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Herbert H. Nowell
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