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

[David Froble]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> 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?

It wasn't too long ago that there was a thread on the use of PDP-11s in 
Canadian nuclear power stations, and included if I recall correctly, 
their intention in continuing doing so for some time into the future. 
Not sure if 50 years was mentioned.

"The right tool for the job" can be a good path to follow, and the 
PDP-11s do some jobs very well.