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Is it time for an open source equivalent of VMS? Something that runs a rewrite of DCL and can compile and run C, Bliss and COBOL programs that make various LIB$ references?

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There were a few alternatives, such as various versions of freevms, but also VMS userland on Linux.

https://github.com/rroart/freevms

FreeVMS has been at about 10% completion since 2001

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