[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[P. Sture]

In article <TkicnCo4rK2s at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
 koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:

> In article <h9behs$2ko$2 at gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk>, rf10 at cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin 
> Fairbairns) writes:
> > 
> > and the fortran compiler also ran in compatibility mode, though (iirc)
> > it produced 32-bit code.
> 
>    So did the SOS editor.  You should have seen the CPU load on my
>    11/780 go down when I convinced people full screen EDT was easier
>    to learn than SOS was to use.

Thanks for confirming that. I believe EDI was also compatibility mode 
and we had a lot of ex-RSX folks who swore by it in spite of the fact 
that to go to the top of file it wrote out the current contents first. 
ISTR that it didn't support file versions either.

I'm pretty sure that early VAX COBOL was also a compatibility mode 
compiler, producing native code. And for some inexplicable reason an in 
house compiler was compatibility mode too. With a team of a dozen or 
more developers on an 11/750 I forced compilations into batch, and when 
the external software house complained that it was slowing the project 
down the customer bought them another 11/750 which I used purely for 
compilations (via dual ported disks).

-- 
Paul Sture