[Info-vax] Learning VMS application programming

[Bob Koehler]

In article <luhujr$hfe$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> Paul Sture wrote:
> 
>> Since I just stated in another post that Fortan was the first HLL language
>> available for VAX/VMS, was Bliss available to the public before it
>> appeared on the Freeware CDs?
> 
> Bliss was available on the PDP-11s.  But as with other compilers, you 
> had to purchase it.  Free came later.

   I've seen a free BLISS compiler for PDP-11 on a DECUS tape.  But I
   thought DEC only supported BLISS-16 as cross compilers that ran
   on PDP-10 or VAXen.