[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
(snip)
 
> 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.)

I remember it from MACRO-10.  (The PDP-10 was the first DEC system
I programmed on, after some years on IBM systems.)

-- glen