Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 20:40:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: Roger Ivie <IVIE AT cc DOT usu DOT edu>
cc: OPENDOS AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: ClosedDos???
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On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Roger Ivie wrote:

> You are complaining that modern VAXen have more memory installed than
> old VAXen? What does that have to do with C?
> 
> VMS has historically used all available high-level languages for the
> utilities. Rumor has it that a goal of the VMS team was to have at least
> one crucial system utility written in each language so that management
> could not unbundle the runtime libraries for the languages from the
> operating system.
> 
> Looking at the listings for VAX/VMS 6.1, the bulk of the utilities are
> still in Bliss. How can C be responsible for code bloat of Bliss code?

Speaking of VAXen and ALPHAen... Has anyone tried out the OpenDOS
port to those architectures?  I find that OpenDOS/Alpha is much
faster than on the PC.  It does require about twice as much
memory though.  The neat thing is that you get 1280k of memory in
real mode on the alpha.  Thats double the PC's limit.  ;o)

BLISS is a linux virus.  Has it also been ported to OpenDOS on
the ALPHA/VAX architectures?

Get the point?

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