[Info-vax] BASIC and AST routines

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In article <sno33i$lmh$4 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>On 2021-11-24, John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
>> In article <snm2ts$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.

The Albatross is a magnificent glider, capable of staying aloft for hours at
a time without flapping its wings.

Sounds like VMS uptimes!  It seems Macro-32 wasn't so bad after all as you've
pointed out just now.

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