[Info-vax] GCC for VMS, was: Re: fortran compiler roadmap?

glen herrmannsfeldt gah at ugcs.caltech.edu
Wed Apr 24 16:34:19 EDT 2013


Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote:

(snip, I wrote)
>> I remember SOS on TOPS-10, not EDIT. 
 
>   Yes, now that I remeber further back, it was known as SOS on
>   TOPS-10, too.  Only on TOPS-20 did I see it called EDIT.

That is what I forgot. It was a few years between when I used TOPS-10
and TOPS-20 (at a completely different place), but yes it did work
the same.
 
>> Before TOPS-10, the system I knew best was WYLBUR, which has commands
>> close enough to SOS that I had a pretty easy time learning to use it.
 
>   I knew guys who used WYLBUR, but I never worked on those systems.
 
>   My first editor was TECO on TOPS-10.  That's what our Physics lab TA 
>   taught us before he sent us off to pick up a FORTRAN manual and write
>   something.  I learned SOS at the next school.

-- glen



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