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From: friedman@chekov.UU.NET (Barry Friedman)
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Subject: Re: RSTS to VMS Migration - Help
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Date: 19 Mar 90 02:46:46 GMT
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Just to throw my $.02 into the pot, I did a port a while back of an
MU-Basic (V1) system under RT11 to RSTS v7.  The approach was simple: 
Port the interpreter and keep the application code intact. 
Of course there was RT11 emulation available & we didn't care about
running unsupported software since MU-BASIC had already been cut loose :-)

If you can get the source code to BASIC+ and a translator is available
who knows, it might be cheaper then re-writing a complex application.