[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

Phillip Helbig undress to reply helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de
Tue Feb 1 16:03:11 EST 2022


In article <stc4nj$2b8$1 at gioia.aioe.org>,
helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply))
writes: 

> In article <stbefv$rre$2 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 
> 
> > On 2022-01-31, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Don't people ever wonder what DEC people were thinking when they wrote VMS?
> > >
> > 
> > Yes, I do. Then I remember it was written in the 1970s. :-) :-)
> 
> There are two major products to come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.  We
> don't believe this to be a coincidence.
> 
>                                                                  ---Tim Jacques

Once I saw an old (even 20 years ago it was old) ad from DEC from the 
late 1970s which showed some people in an old-style computer room.  The 
captions was something like "|d|i|g|i|t|a|l| architecture for the 
1980s".  Beneath it, someone had written "and fashions for the 1970s".




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