what was VMS/OpenVMS written in? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Dec 2010

On 12/01/10 08:13, Rich Alderson<RichA at vulcan.com> wrote:

...
  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. 
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