[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <aWlo0bAMpgI7 at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <7ij0ueF30a3ujU4 at mid.individual.net>, Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
>> 
>> I think that's inevitable when the major language in use is C. That's a 
>> design issue; I was thinking more of how well the code was (not) written.
> 
>    Which makes you wonder why the inventors of C settled on such a design 
>    in a day when CPUs were so much slower.  If I had a system slower
>    than a PDP-11/70, I'd have wanted it to spend it's time doing better
>    things.

And, it is once again necessary to point out that Unix didn't invent
the "null terminated string".  All the other PDP-11 OSes had them and
I would be willing to bet so did all the other DEC OSes that preceded
the PDP-11.

Can anyone here confirm the existence of the .ASCIZ directive in any
of the TOPS Assemblers?  (And, yes, the .PRINT programmed request
assumed a null terminated .ASCIZ string.)

bill
 

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