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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <00A944CF.51D26CA4 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> 
> 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.

   In the VMS 3.x to 4.x time frame, and I've been told later, modules
   were rewritten from Macro-32 to BLISS when they were being worked on
   for other reasons.  I think one of the big pieces I ran into was
   MNTSHR.  $MOUNT was being reworked to add cluster wide volume name
   locking.  (No two shareable volumes by the same volume name.)