[M3devel] CM3 on IA64?

Mark Wickens mark at wickensonline.co.uk
Tue Oct 4 08:05:54 CEST 2011


Jay,

If you do ever feel like tackling the problem again I can give you
access to Alpha and IA64 OpenVMS boxes as required.

Regards, Mark.

On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 05:24 +0000, Jay K wrote:
> VMS is a more difficult port..except that it is approaching Posix
> these days.
> I had it far along, for Alpha. My system wasn't up to date wrt Posix
> features.
> Linux on IA64 should be very easy.
> 
>  - Jay
> 
> 
> > Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 04:42:40 +0100
> > From: dabenavidesd at yahoo.es
> > To: m3devel at elegosoft.com; mark at wickensonline.co.uk
> > Subject: Re: [M3devel] CM3 on IA64?
> > 
> > Hi all:
> > you might find surprisingly more clients for the same platform:
> > http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.vms/2004-03/0130.html
> > 
> > In the news of Ken Olsen's obituary, they mentioned how DEC was not
> about micros, then it would explain some interest on the language in
> that, besides not too many Mainframes machine are build this days, I
> would certainly interested in to take a look about what it can do
> about in OpenVMS (a native port of threads for instance, could be
> interesting). I don't know any Mainframe OSes, would run this days,
> Linux. If OpenVMS has the sources for purchase, would they license
> freely to construct replicas, etc? The post sounds it may take it up
> to that point if people gets involved. Obviously IA64 is just another
> beast but who cares that matter right now. 
> > OK, maybe there is that Modula-3 has its kind of EE, would you
> matter to ask what is that?
> > http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/4236.991448
> > 
> > It could be that of DoD Generic Trusted Intermediaries GTI, which
> was constructed for among others Trusted Solaris and alike is related,
> But,the thing is who is using it right now or used it.
> > doi:10.1080/10658989709342533
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > 
> > --- El lun, 3/10/11, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk>
> escribió:
> > 
> > > De: Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk>
> > > Asunto: [M3devel] CM3 on IA64?
> > > Para: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> > > Fecha: lunes, 3 de octubre, 2011 17:18
> > > Hi guys,
> > > 
> > > Has anyone attempted a port of CM3 to Itanium
> > > architecture?
> > > I've recently installed gentoo on my ZX6000 and it's all
> > > running very nicely.
> > > My thoughts turned to what would be involved in getting
> > > Modula-3 running.
> > > 
> > > Kind regards, Mark.
> > > 
> > > 
> 





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