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From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
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Subject: Re: DEC RISC Architecture?
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Date: 15 Oct 90 04:59:38 GMT
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In article <1353@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> bobw@beverage.Eng.Sun.COM (Robert Weiler) writes:
>Of course, you lose binary compatibility, so until the third party
>catalog is ported (and it may never be), the system isn't really
>worth anything. And that's a hard problem to get around.

I don't know if that's the case.  Elxsi went to a great deal of trouble to
be VMS compatable, at the user-interface and programmers' level (high-level
languages, not assembly, of course 8-)), and, apparantly, they were quite
good at it.

Since Elxsi is (effectively) dead now, they may not be the greatest of
examples, but they did make a VMS clone on a non-VAX, using no VMS source
code...

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