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

[David Froble]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <c726b652-f7dd-4fb3-a5a3-d07b2fd2e939 at googlegroups.com>, abrsvc <dansabrservices at yahoo.com> writes:
>>> If you think finding COBOL programmers is hard what do you think the
>>>
>>> availability of MACRO-11 programmers is like?  :-)
>>>
>> There are still some of us around...
>>
>> I have had people comment about writing/modifying MACRO32 on the IA64 system though.  Nothing like writing "assembler" then using a compiler.  For us old folks, that still seems odd.
> 
> At least, it does work and it works quite well. 
> 
> FWIW, just the other day I came across a VAX Macro instruction that did NOT
> behave properly on Alpha but it seems have been corrected on Itanium.  Back
> on a VAX to verify it, the Alpha is not behaving properly.  On Itanium, it's
> doing the correct thing.
> 

You gonna keep us in suspense, or tell us the instruction?  I'd like to 
do a SEARCH on my code.