[Info-vax] BASIC compiler in the hobbyist distribution

[seasoned_geek]

On Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at 11:58:03 AM UTC-5, David Froble wrote:
> 
> Unless you were running ROSS/V you were not running any Basic 
> interpreter on VAX that I'm aware of.  Basic Plus is an interpreter.  On 
> VAX Basic they implemented "incremental compilation".  Ok, someone point 
> out that that that is pretty much what an interpreter does.  My 
> understanding it that it's not.

I don't know what it was called. Few of those brain cells still exist, but it was when I was on VAX 11/730 and 11/750. That was a loooooong time ago. It was basically the same little environment as what I was used to on the PDP 11/70.