From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bqt@update.uu.se (Johnny Billquist) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 23:58:51 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] FORTRAN In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 2018-03-21 14:48, Paul Winalski wrote: > > On 3/20/18, Clem Cole wrote: >> Paul can correct me, but I don't think DEC even developed a Pascal for TOPS >> originally - IIRC the one I used came from the universities. I think the >> first Pascal sold was targeted for the VAX. Also, RT11 and RSX were >> 'laboratory' systems and those systems were dominated by Fortran back in >> the day - so DEC marketing thought in those terms. >> > DEC did do a Pascal for RSX. I don't remember if it supported RT11 or > RSTS. DEC did a BASIC compiler for RSTS and RSX. RSX and especially > RT were designed mainly for real-time process control in laboratories. DEC did both COBOL, DIBOL, PASCAL, FORTRAN (-IV, -IV-PLUS, -77), C as well as Datatrieve for RSX and RSTS/E. Some of these were also available for RT-11. Admittedly, the C compiler was very late to the game. > A lot of the programming was in assembler for efficiency reasons > (both time and space). Yes. And MACRO-11 is pretty nice. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol