[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Rob Brown]

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 at 18:49 -0000, Bob Eager wrote:

> On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:41:17 +0000, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
>
>> So was DEC the originator of null terminated strings?
>
> Well, OS/8 had them in the PAL assembler. That puts it before C and 
> UNIX.

And also before the PDP-11, which was an architecture that nicely 
handled null-terminated strings.  It would appear that the 
functionality followed the usage rather than the other way around.

- Rob


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