[Info-vax] completion status from LIB$SPAWN

[Paul Sture]

On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:09:41 +0000, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:

> Paul Sture <paul at sture.ch> wrote:
> 
> (snip)
>> There's also the history of compilers to consider.  In my experience
>> many commercial users (as opposed to scientific or academic users) who
>> came to VAX/VMS in the early 1980s fell into 2 main camps:
> 
>> a) those who came from PDPs or other minis where BASIC was very popular
>> b) those who came from more traditional mainframes where COBOL was
>>   pretty much king for business applications (IBM also had PL/I users
>>   in this sector).
> 
> And scientific users, mostly using Fortran.
> 

Yes, and FORTRAN was the only HLL available for VMS when it first became 
available to ordinary customers.  Was the earliest FORTRAN-IV?  I did 
have that available on VMS at the end of 1980 (and was very glad for 
business usage when FORTRAN-77 came along with character variables among 
other new features).

-- 
Paul Sture