[Simh] hp alternatives

[Kevin Handy]

Porting VAX Basic... Sort of...

I have a program that does a bunch of the work to conovert VaxBasic to C++,
but it doesn't do everything.  There's a lot of stuff that just doesn't
exist on other OS's, like the SMG, RMS, LBR, etc.

https://github.com/khandy21yo/btran.git

there are probably lots of bugs, and you may need to reformat your source
slightly (add some spaces in confusing parsing conditions for example). You
may also need to edit the generated C++ to get it right.




On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 8:20 AM E J Jaquay <edj.jaquay at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <
>> khandy21yo at gmail.com>
>> *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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