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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <jk84o2$gie$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> 
> 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 ???

   There are a lot of stories about how PDP-11 autoincrement and
   autodecrement addressing modes inspired the ++ and -- operators.

   There were also stories about how some instruction on an early IBM
   computer inspired Fortran's original three-way calculated IF.  But 
   people who know the computer's instruction set claim there's no such
   instruction.