We would need to start with a working Bliss-64 (or Bliss-32) compiler.
No small feat, that. And then there’s the consideration of extended instruction sets too.
The one small consolation prize is that the VAX was like the x86 currently is - little endian.
As much as I’d like to see the results, when I think of the effort involved... my tendency is to get a beer, sit down and drink it quietly until the thought goes away...
> We would need to start with a working Bliss-64 (or Bliss-32) compiler.
We would need both.
Good news is that the GEM back end can emit x86 code.
Bad news is nobody has visited that code in a long while, and most of the people who know how it works are no longer with the company.