[Info-vax] VMS Software needs to port VAX DIBOL to OpenVMS X86 platform

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/15/2020 10:19 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/15/20 8:26 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 12/15/2020 8:17 AM, Chris Townley wrote:
>>> On 15/12/2020 13:05, Michael C wrote:
>>>> On Monday, December 14, 2020 at 9:39:20 PM UTC-5, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>>> On 12/14/2020 2:08 PM, ultr... at gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>> So Synergex as of now refuses to port their OpenVMS version of 
>>>>>> DIBOL to OpenVMS X86.
>>>>> Well Bob, perhaps you can acquire a copy of the DIBOL product in order
>>>>> to implement it on x86 VMS?
>>>>>> This is a request for VMS software to port VAX DIBOL to the x86 
>>>>>> OpenVMS environment.
>>>>> This forum, as Jan-=Erik may have mentioned, is not a VSI support 
>>>>> venue.
>>>>>> I have started a project using DIBOL and need to implement it on 
>>>>>> the x86 platform.
>>>>> Use Basic ....
>>>>>
>>>>> :-)
>>>>
>>>> DIBOL runs circles around basic :0
>>>
>>> Wasn't Dibol based on Cobol?
>>
>> It is supposedly inspired by Cobol and Basic and Fortran.
> 
> Point out one thing in a DIBOL program that even vaguely
> resembles COBOL (other than the last three letters of the
> name).

Wikipedia claims:
* BCD arithmetic
* data and procedure divisions

Arne