[Simh] hp alternatives

[Gregg Levine]

I agree.. Once again HP  is doing something revolting by exiting a
valuable arena, by ending VMS for hobbyists, this is indeed something
for those of us who do, to look into.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
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On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 6:45 PM Kevin Handy <khandy21yo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Since GP is exiting the VMS arena, and dropping the hobbyist licenses, I was wondering about alternatives for running old VMS code.
>
> There are plenty of C, FORTRAN, etc compilers on Linux/etc, but if there were comparable VMS libraries (open source) for things like RMS, SMG, LBR, etc, then many programs culd be run on other platforms.
>
> I know there are commercial products like these, BUT The licensing doesn't help hobbyist who want to share code.
>
> Are there any of these available? I've done a few functions to convert VMS calls to Linux calls before, but only for a few functions.
>
> I just thought it would be another way to simulate some of VMS st another level than simh/vax/vms.
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