On 11/14/20, 11:54 PM, "cctech on behalf of Adam Thornton via cctech"
<cctech-boun...@classiccmp.org on behalf of cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2020, at 5:20 AM, Camiel Vanderhoeven
<camiel.vanderhoe...@vmssoftware.com> wrote:
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> One thing I'm better at than crystal ball gazing though, is I can give
you an idea of how much hard-to-port assembly is left, since I wrote most of
the x86 assembly code in it :-)
I replied to Camiel off-list, but I just did want to say to the list in
general how great it made me feel that my idle BSing got a thoughtful reply
from someone who is in a—indeed, in *the*—position to know about it. I mean, I
realize I shouldn’t be surprised that VSI has a presence on here, but…I was!
Well, I’m not on cctech because I’m with VSI, I’m on cctech because I have a
large collection of vintage computers (www.vaxbarn.com). In a sense, you could
say that my being with VSI is an indirect result of being a computer collector.
I had a few Alpha systems, wanted to develop software for them on my laptop,
decided to write my own emulator (ES40 Emulator, also forked as AXPbox), got to
know people in VMS engineering as a result, and eventually ended up getting
hired as one of the principal architects for the x86-64 port.
I have a few OpenVMS related presentations up on Youtube, one of them is
specifically about the 4-mode problem (https://youtu.be/U8kcfvJ1Iec). I also
have several vintage computer related videos on there (Reviving 1980's
supercomputers at home - https://youtu.be/0uM09vxT1rg - is a nice introduction
into the kind of things I'm really interested in.)
Camiel
