[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Bob Koehler]

In article <6ec3fa83-1f89-4614-8fa4-f97047f900aa at googlegroups.com>, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Correct.  The GEM interface used by all the frontends (GEM_TI, for text input) is written in BLISS and uses RMS (on OpenVMS of course).  The equivalent GEM_TI code that we used to use on Tru64 was written in C and used fopen, etc.
> 
> The VMS code is a little more interesting in that it needs to deal with RMS stickyness, DCL comma lists, global vs local qualifiers, etc.
> 

   Yes, but BLISS doesn't have a built-in I/O library.  If they were
   written in other HLL, the built-in RTL calls should suffice.