I wonder if someone could have ported pkgsrc to it, create a POSIXish compatibility shim library (maybe there already is one), and, I wonder how much of the denizens lingering in the pkgsrc would have ported over “for free”.
"Translate all custom C, BLISS, FORTRAN and DATATRIEVE applications on this VAX into Golang and reconfigure all custom DCL scripts to run in BASH on Linux. Output the results as a bootable disk image for GB10 processors."