running VAX-unix binaries under VAX-vms

[terryl at tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM]

In article <54309 at yale-celray.yale.UUCP> spolsky-joel at CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes:
>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?
>
>No. The OS calls are not compatible. Forget it, or write a
>Unix-emulator on top of VMS, which is probably theoretically
>impossible. 


     Gee, you'd better not tell the Eunice folks that. After all,
they've had a Unix-emulator running on top of VMS for quite some
time now (like, many years).

      But, in answer to Mr. Lesure's original question, yes it is
possible.