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Or 2018 if you're brave. For now, we have a boot screen!
Story's a bit dated but being as they're in no rush, I don't see any need for us to be either. So, you lot think we'll ever actually get to play with a VMS box on cheap hardware or is this going to be another DNF situation?
Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/13/openvms_moves_slowly_towards_x86/
Previous coverage:
OpenVMS Not Yet Dead.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Friday April 21 2017, @02:02PM (1 child)
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Friday April 21 2017, @11:59PM
Huh. I actually have found contradictory information when I went looking . Xen's security post suggests the IRET mechanism is there and the Priv spot is still present in the GDT selector. [xenproject.org]
INT/IRET on 64-bit use the 64-bit IDT format which has a spot for the code selector in the GDT you can land in, and you can still setup multiple GDT entries in place. Won't having a specific entry in the GDT at Priv 1-2, and setting the sector via IDT give you an interrupt call which would pop you into the Ring 1-2?
I may have to break out the assembler to experiment.
Still always moving