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

Craig A. Berry craigberry at nospam.mac.com
Sat Dec 26 10:04:36 EST 2020


On 12/26/20 7:58 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2020-12-26, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>> In article <rs761t$43l$4 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>
>>> Is anyone still using PL/I BTW ?
>>
>> Wasn't MONITOR written in PL/I?
>>
> 
> If it was, then it probably got rewritten.

I believe parts of it were but it had to be rewritten for the Itanium
port since there was no PL/I post-Alpha.  Volkswagen was reported to be
a big customer running a lot of PL/I apps on Alpha, but I only know the
rumors I read here at the time.



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