30 Nov
2010
30 Nov
'10
6:49 p.m.
From: Dennis Boone
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 5:57 PM
>> I can't find any COBOL, BASIC, MODULA,
CORAL, DIBOL, etc.
> In 7.3, I'm sure that's now true. I'm
pretty sure I remember some
> COBOL and BASIC back in the 4.x and 5.x days, but I can't promise that
> my memory is 100% correct.
Given the RSX heritage, I wouldn't be surprised if
some BASIC code came
across. I was actually almost surprised not to find MODULA, but a bit
of googling suggests my memory of a DEC compiler is erroneous. I would
only expect to find COBOL in some kind of reporting tool, where
performance wouldn't so much.
I think you've confused RSX-11M (the basis of VMS) with RSTS/E (the version
in existence by the time VMS came to be written). RSX-11{A,B,C,D,M,S} is
very much Macro-11 oriented; I'm not sure that there is a BASIC available.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
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Seattle, WA 98104
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