[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <paul.nospam-52C6B8.20462325092009 at pbook.sture.ch>, "P. Sture" <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> 
> 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.

   Tried EDI on RSX and didn't care for it.  Then I tried KED and was
   quite sure I could see the heritage that EDT grew from.
 
> I'm pretty sure that early VAX COBOL was also a compatibility mode 
> compiler, producing native code.

   At VMS 2.0, I think FORTRAN and Macro were the only two running
   in native mode.