rewriting legacy OS for new iron

[Ron Hudson]

On Sep 14, 2004, at 12:06 PM, Paul Koning wrote:

>>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Handy <kth at srv.net> writes:
>
>  Kevin> It would be better to just create a compiler for the languages
>  Kevin> like basic-plus than trying to rewrite the entire OS. It would
>  Kevin> allow you to use the old programs on new systems. Make a BP2
>  Kevin> front-end for GCC, and you can natively run RSTS/E programs on
>  Kevin> your Linux system.
>
> Yes, once you have implemented a sys(char *) function that knows all
> the RSTS sys calls... which is a substantial job.  And the libc
> additions to emulate the various I/O modifiers, especially for
> terminal I/O where they are both strange and important...
>
>     paul
>
>
Might as well just run linux. It has lots of good languages, and plays 
nicely with terminals and
telnet sessions. It's not very legacy tho.