[Info-vax] Bliss was Re: Learning VMS application programming

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <lujtpg$4p4$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist
<bqt at softjar.se> writes: 

> I wish I could get my hands on that experiment. I think that today it 
> would be possible to get a native BLISS compiler running under RSX, and 
> with reasonable capacity.

I ask this as someone who uses VMS and even 17 years ago was asked by an 
astonished visitor "Is that still legal?": What is the point in running 
RXS today?  Is it just the retro-computing feeling, like using a slide 
rule, say?

Although some of my hardware is rather ancient (I have, however, taken 
all VAXen out of the cluster), and although I have some appreciation for 
built-like-a-battleship DEC kit, I've never been into retro-computing, 
although I know some people who are.  In fact, I'm looking forward to 
VMS on x86 and, hopefully somewhere down the road, commodity hardware, 
so that I can be reasonably fast (yes, there are some times when I need 
the speed) and/or run large-memory programs without it costing too much.

Now if VSI can get a modern web browser running on VMS, I'll be a really 
happy camper.  :-)