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FreeVMS (0.3.17 release continued), the only working one

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How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporaneous x86? | Jul 2023

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Actually someone did that: https://github.com/rroart/freevms

OpenVMS 9.2 for x86: Auto boot, licenses, PAKs, networking and SSH | Apr 2023

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What about FreeVMS?

https://github.com/rroart/freevms

The Problem of Legacy IT Systems | Oct 2020

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Its a shame FreeVMS never took off:

http://www.pvv.org/~roart/freevms.html https://github.com/rroart/freevms

HPE sets end date for hobbyist licenses for OpenVMS | Apr 2020

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A long, long time ago, there was a project called FreeVMS which aimed to do that. Sadly, it didn't get much further than booting.

Edit: https://github.com/rroart/freevms . It's definitely not big and professional like OpenVMS :-)