30 Nov
2010
30 Nov
'10
5:46 p.m.
At 07:50 PM 11/30/2010, Ethan Dicks wrote:
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.
I think that's highly unlikely, particularly with COBOL since emulated
code wasn't something DEC wanted in the distribution. (and COBOL in the
4.x days used a number of instructions that weren't implemented in
MicroVaxen.) DEC didn't want clearly poorly performing software to be
in the kit.
That's the argument that allowed TECO32 to become part of the VMS
distribution.
-Rick