[Info-vax] Current VMS engineering quality, was: Re: What's VMS up to these

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-03-19 13.25, David Froble wrote:
> Bob Koehler wrote:
>> In article <jk6fpk$gob$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble
>> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>> Did you know that a PDP-11 was the platform used to develop Unix ??
>>
>> No I didn't. Neither did anyone at Bell Labs, since the PDP-11 was
>> about the third port, not the original development.
>>
>
> Ok, maybe I don't know what I thought I knew ...

That's ok. You're not the only one. And David seems to be a little 
inexact himeself. :-)

> Regardless it's been a very long time. Maybe that's me excuse.
>
> Another thing that I "thought" I knew, that "C" was influenced by the
> PDP-11 assembler language ???

A popular myth, but debunked by Denis Richie himself.
Or atleast the predecrement and postincrement pointer stuff. Even though 
it does translate perfectly into PDP-11 assembler.
However, there still seem to be some debate about the real vs. double 
floating point types as related to the PDP-11 architecture.

	Johnny