Screw *nix; if I’m going to switch systems I think I’ll go w/ OpenVMS instead.
Really - REALLY! OpenVMS was killed last week! I guess you missed it’s obituary!
OpenVMS? Is EDT still available for PCs? I had a copy years ago. It was a real timesaver in many ways with the control K feature.
Then you’d be switching chip architectures, because I know of no plans to port VMS to the i32 or i64 architecture.
About the only fast way to get there (as far as I can see), would be a VM that emulates the Alpha or Itanium instruction set on i64.
The biggest barriers, IMO, to porting VMS to the i64 would be the lack of the Bliss compiler for your target architecture. You could write a program to translate the Macro stuff over, but all that Bliss-32 code... woof. That’s a huge undertaking.