[Info-vax] How things have changed (was Re: VMS 8.4-2L1 on AXPBox)

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Mon Jan 4 20:09:13 EST 2021


On 1/4/21 1:33 PM, Hunter Goatley wrote:
> On 1/4/2021 11:08 AM, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
>>
>> Yup... to the point that, on my first job, in order to avoid builds
>> during the day (we had one every night), for small modifications, we
>> would compile /MACHINE_CODE, and then use the compiler listing to PATCH
>> the modification directly in the existing executable. Was way faster,
>> even considering mistakes...
>>
> HA! That's great. Most of what I was doing back then was MACRO-32, so it 
> didn't matter, but your method would have been interesting for the 
> products written in BASIC! 8-)
> 

My first contact with the VAX was at West Point, NY.  It ran Eunice
on top of VMS which was a real dog.  But  not as bad when someone
decided to run the Ada Compiler.  then we all just logged off and
found something else to do.

bill




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