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

[IanMiller]

On Mar 5, 6:20 pm, "John Reagan" <johnrrea... at earthlink.net> wrote:
> "sapienzaf" <sapie... at noesys.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1b3d3b9d-eb86-4384-a588-d0d565dfd33e at c36g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...
> 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



VAX Scan has been migrated to OpenVMS Alpha
http://www.stromasys.ch/news/VaxScanMigration.htm