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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/15/20 10:35 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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

Lots of languages did and do BCD Arithmetic doesn't mean they
resemble or acquired that from COBOL.

> * data and procedure divisions

While the manual states there is a data and a procedure division the 
word division is not used in source code, the start of the data area
is  not delinieated and the separation of the two is merely the symbol
PROC.  Again, no similarity to COBOL.

This is all like saying French and English must be the same
language because the both use the letter "Q".


Wikipedia strikes again.

bill