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From: kph@dustbin.cisco.com (Kevin Paul Herbert)
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Subject: Re: RSTS to VMS Migration - Help
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Date: 20 Mar 90 21:15:39 GMT
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Actually, if the code is BASIC-PLUS, porting the ppcode interpreter to
VMS would be rather interesting to do. You could probably get 32KW
programs that ran really fast. If I were doing it, I'd write a portable
ppcode interpreter in C and an I/O package which understood RSTS modes
and SYS() calls.

Kevin