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I'm still waiting for the x86-64 VMS port. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZN6LjuEgdw&t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZN6LjuEgdw&t

• wazoox 8y ago
  Maybe give freeVMS a try :) It's an old (crazy) friend of mine who did it...
  • vt240 8y ago
    I remember messing around with that ages ago. I wonder if any of the contributors ended up working with VMS Software on the port. It looks, from their site, like they are getting close.
    • beefhash 8y ago
      > It looks, from their site, like they are getting close. Does it? It looks to me that the last commit was almost five years ago[1]. [1] http://www.freevms.net/gitweb/?p=FreeVMS.git;a=summary http://www.freevms.net/gitweb/?p=FreeVMS.git;a=summary
      • wazoox 8y ago
        Yeah, but maybe a little spark of interest could re-lit the flame :)
      • vt240 8y ago
        I was referring to the VMS Software port, sorry. nickp posted the link bellow.
• nickpsecurity 8y ago
  "trn" on Lobste.rs has been posting the company's slide decks about their progress. A recent one, "Proof Points to x86 Boot," shows they're getting close: http://vmssoftware.com/updates_port.html http://vmssoftware.com/updates_port.html See "History of the Port" in bottom right for older posts. You might want to do it bottom-up going from oldest to newest. Also, a few things trn posted indicated they were doing non-x86 work like Alpha releases, too. Example below: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/07/prweb14487932.htm http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/07/prweb14487932.htm So, it looks like they've been modernizing all three platforms instead of just porting to x86.
• aap_ 8y ago
  I'm still wondering whether the amd64 port of OpenVMS will kill amd64 like it killed every other platform it ever ran on.
  • binomialxenon 8y ago
    Hey, whatever it takes for us to get to RISC on the desktop.