[Info-vax] BASIC and AST routines

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-11-24, John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <snm2ts$oc3$1 at dont-email.me>,
> clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley) wrote:
>
>> VMS should have been designed 5-10 years later on than when it was.
>
> Would DEC have survived that long without it? Would it have been
> successful in the environment of the time? 
>

Probably not. It's a pity the timing didn't work out however.

OS design was starting to become a lot cleaner by the start of
the 1980s and much cleaner by the end of the 1980s.

A VMS designed several years later would not have had the albatross
of Macro-32 as an application programming language and as a system
implementation language hanging around it.

Think about the trends of that time period. By the early 1980s, OS
designs in a HLL (Unix for example) were standard and by the late
1980s DEC was proposing Prism with Pillar as the system implementation
language.

Simon.

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