[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Eager]

On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:03:25 +0000, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> 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.)

It's in the PAL assembler for the PDP-8 (it's not called ASCIZ; I think 
it's TEXT).

Just checked my DEcSystem-10 assembky language handbook, dated 1973, and 
it's in Macro-10 too.




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