[Info-vax] Listeners in VMS Basic, was: Re: Integrity iLO Configuration?

[Dave Froble]

On 6/28/2021 1:46 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-06-25, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The compiler and RTL LOVE floating point.  Printing an integer involves converting it to a floating point, converting that to a string, and printing everything to the left of the decimal point.  And even with the default being IEEE, we found that Itanium BASIC still wants to use VAX floating.
>>
>
> Was DEC Basic by any chance written by a salesperson looking to sell
> more powerful (and hence more expensive) computers ? :-)

Basic+ came out of EG&H, Tim (or Dave) Hart wrote it, I'm assuming in 
Macro-11.  Ran on RSTS.

BP2 was a compiled version of the language, running on RSX, not sure 
what language.

VAX Basic was the next iteration.  Not sure what language.  Kirbey 
Altman was one of the principal developers.

The language was them implemented on Alpha, still 32 bit.

Then moved to itanic.

So, you can see, there was plenty of opportunity for things to get 
messed up.  As for all the stack crawling, don't have a clue how that 
came to be.  Wish it hadn't.


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