[Info-vax] New VSI Roadmap (yipee!)

[Hunter Goatley]

On 3/5/2015 9:19 PM, David Froble wrote:
> Hunter Goatley wrote:
>> I'm a little late to the conversation, but my first programming job
>> was with Clyde Digital Systems. At the time, all of their products
>> were written in VAX BASIC and MACRO-32.
>>
>> VAX BASIC was *not* what most people think of when they think of
>> BASIC. It was a real language. ;-)
>       ^^^
>
> Was ?????????????????
>
> How about "is" ?

Good point. "Was" came about because I haven't actually had any reason 
to use BASIC for about 25 years. But "is" is the correct word.

The BASIC stigma applied even to VAX BASIC. Customers often 
ridiculed/complained when one of our products would generate an error 
and show BASIC error messages. "You're using BASIC?!?" Even among many 
VMS people, VAX BASIC had a bum rap.


> I cannot remember any details, but "Clyde Digital Systems" seems to be
> something that I should be remembering.  Cannot remember what we may
> have been doing with them.

Clyde Digital Systems did security and communications software: CONTRL, 
AUDIT, KBLock, CALOUT, ProMAIL, etc. The products are still around, 
though Clyde Digital Systems is long gone.

Hunter
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Hunter Goatley, Process Software, http://www.process.com/
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