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

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In article <h2aKOEA9rBpy at eisner.encompasserve.org>, koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>In article <4af6c9fc$0$273$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>> 
>> And my understanding is that VMS inherited this from
>> the PDP-11 OS's.
>
>   DEC OS's for PDP-11 tended to be written in Macro-11.  A little bit
>   of BLISS-11 alter on was used for portable stuff like EDT.  VMS
>   was initially mostly Macro-32 and BLISS; much of the Macro-32
>   was eventually replaced.  Lots of other languages were also used.

I wouldn't say Macro-32 was replaced.  When and where pieces required
revamping for Alpha or IA64, the routines were rewritten -- sadly, in
C -- but there were no wholesale rewrites of modules just because they
were sourced Macro-32.

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