On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 09:04:06AM -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > In > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > on 08/02/2005 > at 04:26 PM, Ray Mullins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >Now if HP would port it to the x86 platform...but I'll admit, that's > >a lot of work. I'm sure lots of it is written in assembler. > Well, the original VMS for the VAX may have been written for > assembler, but surely when they ported it to the Alpha they used > something more, well, portable?
Nope. They wrote a compiler that took VAX assembler and built Alpha executables. There's also a lot of very low-level code that provides some VAX facilities on the Alpha (that's what PALcode is). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
