[ros-kernel] WinNT and VMS similarities

[Wesley Parish]

What I was thinking of doing myself, was taking the various bits and pieces of
the FreeVMS projects that have come into existence, etc, and adding them to
ReactOS, then porting the resulting OS to a VAX emulator  -probably the SIMH VAX
since I'm reasonable familiar with that - Quasijarus 4.3BSD and OpenBSD/VAX -
then testing some OpenVMS apps/freeware I've stumbled upon (much to their dismay
;), etc.

It's just an idea at this stage, but I think it's worth trying out.  At least
for this reason - since I don't know much x86 assembler and no VAX assembler, it
will be a good reason to learn it.

Wesley Parish

Quoting Casper Hornstrup <chorns at users.sourceforge.net>:

> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ros-kernel-bounces at reactos.com 
> > [mailto:ros-kernel-bounces at reactos.com] On Behalf Of Wesley Parish
> > Sent: 5. juli 2004 04:55
> > To: claudevms at freevms.org; ReactOS Kernel List
> > Subject: [ros-kernel] WinNT and VMS similarities
> > 
> > I just came across this article on WinNT and VMS:
> > Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story 
> > http://www.winnetmag.com/Windows/Articles/ArticleID/4494/pg/2/2.html
> > 
> > I was just wondering if ReactOS and the various FreeVMS 
> > projects out there might make use of the interrelationship of 
> > WinNT and VMS, to bootstrap the FreeVMS and ReactOS projects further:
> 
> The concepts are similar. Not the implementations.
> 
> Casper
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