[Info-vax] Learning VMS application programming

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2014-09-08 16:06, Bob Koehler wrote:
> 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.

Indeed. Would you happen know any more details of what was on that DECUS 
tape, when that tape was created, and any other details? I searched 
through all the DECUS RSX-SIG tapes, I found nothing about BLISS 
anywhere in there.

	Johnny