[Info-vax] RADIX-50 - Re: Moving away from OpenVMS

[Toby Thain]

On 24/05/12 2:54 PM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> In article<foednafrXoDqUSDSnZ2dnUVZ_jmdnZ2d at insightbb.com>, "John
> Reagan"<johnrreagan at earthlink.net>  writes:
>
>> EDIT/FDL was written in Pascal but was recoded into C about a dozen years
>> ago.  The error log formatter was written in Fortran many years ago, but it
>> too was recoded into C.
>
> What is EDT written in?  (I believe it is also a VESTed image on
> Itanium, maybe even on ALPHA.)
>
>> Besides C, BLISS, and Macro-32, the AUDIT_SERVER and ACME_SERVER are written
>> in Ada.  There are pieces of the Pascal RTL written in Pascal.  As far as I
>> know, there is no COBOL, BASIC, or Fortran in the build.
>
> So the 6-character limit for node names has another source (no pun
> intended) than the limit on a variable name in Fortran before Fortran90.
>

There is also RADIX-50, used to encode fixed length symbols (e.g. six) 
in object code formats.

--Toby

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