[Info-vax] VMS porting/rewrite, was: Re: [OT] Wirth style languages, was: Re: Obscure Ada compiler vendors?

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Wed Apr 10 14:40:21 EDT 2013


On 2013-04-10, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
> In article <kk45h2$m4v$2 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>On 2013-04-10, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>>>
>>> The only thing I've ever seen a ACP used for on VMS is for tape drives
>>> and I've never even come across any public documentation which would
>>> allow me to write one of those.
>>>
>>
>>Before I get 5 zillion messages pointing out the various ACPs in use in
>>VMS, I should clarify that to mean I meant "filesystem on a device" support
>>ACPs.
>
> Remember the F11BACP subsequently replaced by the XQP (which is still, in
> essence, an ACP)???
>

I started out with VMS in the 5.x era; before that I was in the PDP-11
world.

Simon.

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