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

[Tom Linden]

On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:55:37 -0800, IanMiller <gxys at uk2.net> wrote:

> 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

But not ported.


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