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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 13/06/2013 10:44, BERTRAND Joël a
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<blockquote cite="mid:51B99499.6010106@systella.fr" type="cite"> Hello,
<br>
<br>
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.
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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.
<br>
<br>
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).
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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.
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Today, FreeVMS 0.4 requires :
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- a pager (FreeVMS/sources/freevms/vm/vm_pager.c)
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- some drivers (console, hard disk, network)
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- a swapper
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- a command line
<br>
- some volunteers to keep webpages alive.
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If anyone is interested, please answer to this mail. With more
than 5 new and active developers, I think we can restart this
project.
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Regards,
<br>
<br>
JKB
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<font face="Universalis ADF Std" size="+1">Hello<br>
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.<br>
I have never understood why ODS-like file versioning is not
implemented into recent filesystems.<br>
About web pages, is it not better to open a WordPress blog which
is more modern, attractive, interactive and collaborative ?<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<br>
Denis<br>
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