[Info-vax] Running OpenVMS native on x86 . . .

[John Wallace]

On Dec 9, 2:35 am, moro... at world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney)
wrote:
> glen herrmannsfeldt <g... at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> >Story was that as DEC was getting ready to release VAX, they
> >published a calendar with the dates in hex.
>
> Reminds me of an old, old joke that would be lost on modern programmers.
> Maybe someone here hasn't heard it.
>
> Q: Why do PDP-11 programmers always get Halloween and Christmas confused?
>
> A: Because 31 OCT is the same as 25 DEC.

I'd not heard it, so thank you!

Anyway, TECO speaks octal, decimal, and hex. What more could anyone
want?

Back in my first job, I helped build an early set of cross-assembly
(etc) tools around a home grown front end and the PDP11 (IAS,
actually) assembler, linker, librarian, cross referencer, etc to do
the hard work (they worked, so why not use them). One snag was that
the target environment liked hex whereas MACRO11 and TKB liked octal.
Easily fixed with a one line TECO macro to adjust the listings and
link maps.