[Info-vax] How Do You Define Record (Data Structure) Dummy Arguments in

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/19/2019 5:18 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-12-18, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at 4:58:28 PM UTC-5, sector... at gmail.com wrote:
>>> DEC of course, included RDML and SQL preprocessors - and I think the PASCAL compiler was free - which I'm sure helped.
>>>
>>> It?s also amazing how many serious applications (world-wide) are still written in FORTRAN ? obviously control systems, but also some very well-known financial application. FORTRAN was also a free VAX language which I?m sure added to its popularity in the financial arena.
>>
>> None of the compilers were ever free.  Discounted deeply?  Perhaps.  But never free.
> 
> Was it free if you were on the licences that DEC provided to a University
> for academic only use ?

Universities paid.

If my memory serves me right then back in the 1980's it was in the 
magnitude of 50 K$ per compiler, but in the 1990's some educational
programs significantly reduced the cost.

So definitely money, but not that bad. We had 100 student
concurrent sessions doing Pascal on a VAX 6420.

Arne