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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: VMS and C/Ada, was: Re: Could you write a BSD like os in ADA?
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On 2017-03-14, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> {hope I got the attributions correct}
>
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 11:59:13 +0100, gérard Calliet
><gerard.calliet@pia-sofer.fr> declaimed the following:
>
>>Le 28/08/2016 à 03:06, Simon Clubley a écrit :
>>>
>>> The last time I raised the GNAT on VMS x86-64 issue in comp.os.vms,
>>> VSI said the issue was complicated and was still under discussion.
>>> I have not heard anything else since that.
>>>
>
> 	Probably trying to fit VMS four-level privilege/protection scheme into
> a two-level MMU scheme.

I was talking about GNAT on VMS x86-64, not VMS itself on x86-64.

As I understand it, it's a "do we invest in Ada on VMS x86-64 or not ?"
problem and not a technical problem.

Simon.

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