[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2018-01-24 00:36, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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.

No one looks good in blue. :-)
So yeah, don't hold your breath. But I think there is at least a glimmer 
of hope. I wish I could report more, but there is nothing really to 
report right now. I'll give more information when there is something 
concrete to report.

>> 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.  :-)

Well. I think it's still (sortof) good news that some of the places are 
staying with the PDP-11s. It's just that emulated machines are so much 
faster and cheaper today. And the one thing that often is the largest 
issue on the old machines are the disks... Most people are happy to get 
away from those. (Especially if they still run on RD53s...)

   Johnny

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