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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
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On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:09:12 -0700 (PDT), Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 7:16:56 PM UTC-6, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> 
>> 	Heck... At work we are running an OpenVMS/VAX (not Alpha) emulation on
>> Windows boxes in order to run a cross-platform Ada-83 compiler (no longer
>> in production, to my knowledge) to build the boot software for some
>> aircraft flight systems.
>
>Hm, given that; are you excited about the project to port OpenVMS to x86_64? I heard from a friend that the Ada compiler (along w/ Fortran, C and C++) is going to be updated.

	Well, it would put some meaningful dynamic process priorities on the
hardware <G>

	I'm still have no idea how they handled the four-level hardware system
of the VAX on two-level processors (user/super) even in emulation.
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