[Info-vax] When was the peak of Layered Products

[John Reagan]

"sapienzaf" <sapienza at noesys.com> wrote in message 
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On Mar 5, 11:21 am, urbancamo <m... at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:
> Indeed, I'd be interested to hear in people's opinions on their
> favourite/most innovative VMS application that is no more.

>VAX Scan.  I think someone in Europe still owns it, but I'm not sure
>if it's readily available.  I did a bunch of language migrations (from
>non-VMS to VMS version) with it "back in the day".

It should be on a DECUS tape.  We didn't sell it to anybody.  SRI offers a 
SCAN-to-something converter.

And, the SCAN language was based on a Unisys language.  The Digital employee 
who pushed VAX SCAN was an ex-Unisys person who is good friends with the 
original author (Tom Turba at Unisys, now retired).  I thought I had some 
more background somewhere from an email from Tom (who was also the chairman 
of the Pascal standards committee when I was the secretary - well, 
techically "IS" not "WAS" since the committee still exists on paper).

John