[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 01/23/2018 06:28 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2018-01-24 00:01, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 01/23/2018 05:53 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> On 2018-01-23 14:36, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>> Like so many things that have gone out of business I wold have liked
>>>> to see it just Open Sourced.  But I doubt that will happen.  Much more
>>>> likely it will fade into oblivion like all the PDP software.
>>>
>>> ...still working on that... :-)
>>>
>>>    Johnny
>>>
>>
>> Yes, but will I live long enough to see it?  More importantly, will
>> there still be any PDP-11's (real ones) left by the time that comes
>> about.  :-)
> 
> Obviously it is impossible to say when we'll have any results. It 
> depends on several things. But I can assure you that there is at least 
> some effort being spent on making progress.

I am sure there is.  And has been for quite some time now. But, as
I said, I am not holding my breath waiting.  I don't look good in blue.

> 
> And I can assure you that I have a bunch of physical machines that will 
> stay around for a long time yet. But most places I know who still run 
> PDP-11s in production have moved over to emulated machines.

Of course they are.  If production sites were still using real PDP's
we wouldn't have them to play with.  :-)

bill