[Simh] hp alternatives

[E J Jaquay]

I have been able to replace RMS indexed files with BerkelyDB without many
issues so that is one alternative.  Just have to replace I/O statements
with functions that do the appropriate calls.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 20:10 Dan Gahlinger <dgahling at hotmail.com> wrote:

> is there a way to port vax basic?
> please dont say visual basic, it's awful.
>
> heck even vax Pascal is vastly different from free Pascal.
>
> dcl? nothing remotely like it really, bash?
>
> how about indexed files?
> rdbms is a poor man's alternative.
>
> vax vms is truly unique.
> and will always be my favorite.
>
> Dan
>
> Try: https://www.grammarly.com
>
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> *From:* Simh <simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com> on behalf of Kevin Handy <
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 18, 2020 6:44:53 PM
> *To:* Simh <simh at trailing-edge.com>
> *Subject:* [Simh] hp alternatives
>
> 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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