24 May
2011
24 May
'11
4:16 p.m.
On 05/24/2011 06:42 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I've only used two PC software tools, Turbo Pascal and QB4, both were
ok. these days PCs run linux and its' C or LUA I stopped doing webby
stuff years ago (coldfusion, HTML, Paradox and MySQL).
I have V4.2 install and a uVax2000 running V4.1 Ultrix, fun little box.
Allison
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:18 PM, allison<ajp166 at
verizon.net> wrote:
I feel fortunate that for a year or so,
I made my living writing
application and graphics code on RT-11. There probably aren't many
people under 50 now who had the chance for that experience. It was a
joy to code on, and 99% of what I did was in MACRO-11.
I've used MACRO-11 and when I started using C I had that dang it it
looks like
macro moment.
I never
said it was. I just said it doesn't do much, which is true.
It's a bit more capable than CP/M. Wonderful and fantastic for
single-user, single-terminal work...but that's about it.
We are never going to argue there! I can
appreciate that. But I was doing the PC when the PC was still a
wannabe. RT11FB or XM gave me
a lot more than DOS...
The other guys at my shop at the time were coding in Turbo
Pascal on
Everex PC-AT clones. I did not envy them.
My other
favorites was VMS and RSTS and RSX and even a fun little OS called
Ultrix.
I encountered VMS first, then UNIX (4BSD), then Ultrix, then RT-11 -
all within a couple of years. Dabbled with RSTS and RSX, but never
enough to get good at them. Great times!