[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Eager]

On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:34:23 +0000, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> In article <7j9prfF34f1s1U20 at mid.individual.net>,
> 	Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
>> On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:37:35 +0000, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> 
>>> In article <7j9n4cF34f1s1U18 at mid.individual.net>,
>>> 	Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
>>>> On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:20:05 +0000, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I have seen an amazing bunch of stuff written in a lot of different
>>>>> languages.  Screen Control routines in COBOL.  Editors and even a
>>>>> database system written in Fortran.  And most of them required that
>>>>> you violate some standard at some point in the program.  Amazing
>>>>> what some people will do to save a buck or prove a point.
>>>> 
>>>> Anyone seen a VAX database-ish product called Millennium? Dun and
>>>> Bradstreet? Early 1990s I think.
>>>> 
>>>> It had an SQL-type language called PDL. Compiler (compiling to an
>>>> interpretive code) written in COBOL. Run-time interpreter written in
>>>> COBOL. Made some sense as the rest of the system was all COBOL, and
>>>> the source and 'object' were all stored in the database system.
>>>> 
>>>> It was originally developed on a non-VAX system with VERY expensive
>>>> compilers.
>>> 
>>> Well, as long as we're asking.... Anybody got the source to RIM? :-)
>> 
>> Sorry...what's that? Only RIM I know is a loader...!
>  
> Relational Information Management System -- Developed by Boeing and the
> University of Washington for NASA in the early 1980's.
> 
> There are pieces and various cobbled together versions available but no
> complete copies of what was actually in use.  And, yes, there was a VMS
> version.

OK...never heard of that. I actually worked on Millennium (sort of) so I 
know about that - not my area really. I wrote the compiler that replaced 
the COBOL-based one. My compiler generated native VAX code, and had a 
runtime library as a shareable image or two.




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