2 Dec
2010
2 Dec
'10
10:15 a.m.
On 12/01/10 08:13, Rich Alderson<RichA at vulcan.com> wrote:
From: Dennis Boone
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 5:57 PM
Late to the thread... (as usual) :-)
Yes, there exists BASIC for RSX. It's called BASIC+2. But no part of RSX
proper have anything to do with this layered product.
RSX-11M(+) is mostly written in MACRO-11, with some BLISS-11 in there.
Johnny
>> >>> 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.