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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <lukibf$bqm$1 at dont-email.me>,
	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> 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.

It wasn't a Canadian Nuclear Plant.  It was GE who manufactures, sells
and maintains Nuclear Power Plants in a lot of places.
> 
> "The right tool for the job" can be a good path to follow, and the 
> PDP-11s do some jobs very well.

I would love to see their spare parts facility.  But they would probably
get upset at all the drooling I would be doing.

bill

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