Compilers not coming with the OS anymore

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Fri Jun 18 23:22:07 1999

At 16:13 18/06/99 -0700, Ethan Dicks wrote:

>VMS (V5.X and before, for sure) came with an assembler. Compilers were
>always extra. At least the engineers stuck it to the marketing types when
>the marketing types wanted to charge extra for *run-time* libraries for
>the various languages. The engineers wrote a system utility (CUSPS, as they
>were called by DEC - I forget exactly what it stands for) in each of the
>languages DEC shipped so that the runtimes would have to ship with the OS,
>not as a seperate product. ISTR that the error log analyzer is written in
>PL/1, for example.

I think VMS has always come with an assembler (I did a lot of assembly
language programming in 1981 under something like v2.4).

CUSP is something like Commonly Used System (Software?) Program.

I'm not sure about the error log analyzer but certainly part (if not all)
of the monitor program is written in PL/1. (Monitor monitors the
performance of a VMS system and is not to be confused with The Monitor
which was the system for a DECsystem-10).

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