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DEC had a tool called VEST which was used to take native VAX binaries and convert them to run on Alpha AXP. It was very cool technology. A fair amount of the
by loph 10y ago
DEC had a tool called VEST which was used to take native VAX binaries and convert them to run on Alpha AXP. It was very cool technology. A fair amount of the system utilities for OpenVMS on AXP were VESTed VAX binaries. I'm pretty sure the EDT editor was one of these.
The VEST technology could possibly be used to convert native VAX binaries to run on X86_64, I don't know for sure how the endian-ness would be dealt with.
- aap_ 10y agoWhy would endianness be a problem? VAX, Alpha and x86 all are little endian.
- SloopJon 10y agoThe roadmap on the same site shows a "dynamic binary translator for Alpha and Itanium images" planned to be available with the general release ... in 2019! http://vmssoftware.com/pdfs/VSI_Roadmap_20160906.pdf http://vmssoftware.com/pdfs/VSI_Roadmap_20160906.pdf