[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Allen, Daniel P.]

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>From: info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On Behalf Of John Reagan
>Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:53 AM
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>Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.


>>"Neil Rieck" <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>>news:78797018-2cfb-402d-9eb9-b1f109c76092 at p8g2000yqb.googlegroups.com...
>> Since any idiot can put up a web page these days, you know it all
>> can't be true. So imagine my surprise when I bumped into this:
>>
>> http://radsoft.net/rants/20040831,00.shtml
>>
>> <quote>Dave always wanted to rewrite VMS in C. He hated Unix but loved

>
>I don't believe a word of it.  VAXELN wasn't written in C, but EPASCAL.
>PRISM was going to have its own implementation language (a Don MacClaren
>invention) that was going to be a mixture of Pascal, a dash of PL/I, and
>some new language features.  I have one of the numbered preliminary language
>manuals stuffed in a box.

>John

PILLAR - the manual is in the PRISM/MICA directories on bitsaver.

Dan
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