[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-01-29, bill <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/28/2023 10:39 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> 
>> What if you didn't have a choice?
>> 
>> RSTS/E V04b
>> 
>> Signed word integers
>> Strings
>> Single and double D-float
>> 
>> That's all there was ...
>> 
>
> No COBOL?  Sad as it sounds if RSTS BASIC was the only language
> on the machine (I am pretty sure it was not) then one would have
> to write routines, no matter how inefficient and time consuming,
> to do the job right.  But floating point for money is never the
> right answer.
>

Same question as for PDP-11 DIBOL: when did COBOL arrive on RSTS/E
and was it after David started implementing his application on RSTS/E ?

Simon.

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