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I'm still waiting for the x86-64 VMS port.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZN6LjuEgdw&t

"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

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

So, it looks like they've been modernizing all three platforms instead of just porting to x86.

Maybe give freeVMS a try :) It's an old (crazy) friend of mine who did it...

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.

> 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

Yeah, but maybe a little spark of interest could re-lit the flame :)

I was referring to the VMS Software port, sorry. nickp posted the link bellow.

I'm still wondering whether the amd64 port of OpenVMS will kill amd64 like it killed every other platform it ever ran on.

Hey, whatever it takes for us to get to RISC on the desktop.

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