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I lead a team to implement CIFS server in VMS on Itanium after deciding not to port ASV (Advanced Server - CIFS server for Alpha since it had a lot of hand tuned assembly for a specific architecture).

We ported Samba and implemented a lot of C runtime functions to make porting less intrusive. As part of porting Samba to VMS, I made the early port of CVS client and streamline merging upstream changes with our VMS specific changes.

Some of the most infamous 4 letter words we cussed all time was the missing 'fork' and 'fcntl' and all the work arounds we had to put in to get Samba working...

I did meet quite a few very competent engineers from DEC times as part of my work and also interacted with David Butenhof of POSIX threads fame when debugging a thread library he and their team had developed and was used by ASV.