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

[mceculski2 at gmail.com]

On Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 1:26:52 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2020-12-16, mceculski2 at gmail.com <mceculski2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > YOU DIDN'T THINK I WOULD PASS ON A CHALLENGE DID YOU? :)
> > THAT WAS AN OLD VAX DIBOL CODE EXAMPLE NOT USING THE FOR LOOP STRUCTURE
> >
> > BEHOLD THE POWER OF SYNERGY DIBOL I THINK MY CPU PROCESS TIME WILL BEAT YOURS
> >
> 
>               ^^
> Perhaps you should have run it through a compiler first before posting. :-)

I saw that and corrected it. It's been a while give me a break :)

> 
> BTW, it's the first time I've seen channel 15 used for TT: in a DIBOL
> program that I can remember. I always used to use channel 1 as it was
> the first channel I used to open in a program when DIBOL was the
> language I was using to write the program.
> 
> What channel did others use for TT: ? Is channel 15 from something
> (such as someone's training sessions) that I never saw ?

All off my jobs had pre written code using that as the channel no. I just thought since that was a high channel no in dibol that it was used by default. So I just keep using it as the terminal number. I wasn't about to go thru all of that code to change just a channel no. either :)


> 
> >        END
> >      SLEEP 2
> >      CLOSE 15
> >      STOP
> 
> Simon.
> 
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