running VAX-unix binaries under VAX-vms

[Joel Spolsky]

In article <621 at asuvax.asu.edu> system at asuvax.asu.edu (Marc Lesure) writes:
>Is it possible to take a binary from a VAX running 4.3bsd and
>get it to run on a VAX running VMS?  If so, how?
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>Marc Lesure / Arizona State University / Tempe, AZ
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No. The OS calls are not compatible. Forget it, or write a
Unix-emulator on top of VMS, which is probably theoretically
impossible. 

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