DIBOL and RPG for RSTS

[Paul Koning]

> On Mar 27, 2020, at 8:42 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> On 3/27/20 8:25 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>>> On Mar 27, 2020, at 6:12 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Does anyone have a .tap image of a DIBOL install tape for RSTS?
>>> 
>>> And while I am at it, was there ever RPG for RSTS?
>>> 
>>> I am so bored I have decided to really load up a SIMH system
>>> and just live in the past for a while.  I have Fortran-IV,
>>> Fortran-77, COBOL-81 and C installed now as well as BASIC and
>>> MACRO.  But I  haven't had the chance to do any DIBOL or RPG
>>> for quite some time and would love to try them again.
>> If you want to try something entirely different, dig up the FORTH runtime system that's part of the V10.1 "unsupported" kit.  It's a neat language.  Still in use, in fact.
> 
> I used that FIG FORTH package ages ago on real PDP-11's.
> Was never impressed with Forth so much.  Only time I was
> impressed was when I worked with OpenPROM which was all
> written in Forth.  Wanted to do one for the PDP-11 but
> lost interest when Sun gave it to IEEE and they wanted
> several thousand dollars just to look at it.
> 
> Now I am more interested in sticking with the serious
> business languages that ran on the PDP-11.
> 
> bill

Ok.  The RSTS Forth is more than FIG-FORTH; it adds the FORTH-83 (FORTH-79?) language standard features.  I used it for several applications, the biggest by far is SDA, an interactive RSTS crash dump analyzer.  4600 lines of code...  It should be in the kit.

	paul