Lindy Mayfield wrote:
I understand that the first step in porting a new operating system to
MVS is to train the compiler to output MVS instructions. But how would
one compile the changes to the compiler?
Well...
In fact writing any compiler is quite complex task. In such case we can
talk about serious (complete?) re-writing of it.
Of course it is possible to produce byte code intended for different
platform. For example CP/M was created on MVS.
I think it would be much more reasonable to port the source code, i.e.
to change C code for OpenVMS to be "workable" after compiling it on MVS.
Say for example I wanted to port OpenVMS to VM.
In fact NO. You talked about porting applications, not the operating
systems. Didn't you?
Otherwise it is nonsense: you cannot port OpenVMS to MVS. You could try
to port OpenVMS to mainframe.
BTW: I liked VMS. Good system.
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