10 Feb
2006
10 Feb
'06
1:04 p.m.
Don North wrote:
What Henk says is basically accurate. The PDP-11
Commercial Instruction
Set was
designed to support PDP-11 Cobol applications. AFAIK the PDP-11 RSX-11M
Cobol compiler was the only application that actually made any use of
CIS, altho it
I thought DIBOL used it also.
At one time (while in college) I moonlighted (moonlit?) writing DIBOL
code for a local newspaper. The older gentle man who ran the shop
didn't think it was funny when I wrote a RSTS background job which would
pop up on a random terminal and say something like "I am the random
glitch - catch me if you can!" :-)
anyway, I thought that machine was an 11/34 with CIS. I seem to
remember something about a dibol subsystem. But I was not entirely
lucid at the time, being a college student and all.
-brad