VMS 4.4 source code on microfiche

From: Paul Williams <flo_at_rdel.co.uk>
Date: Fri Feb 16 01:53:54 2001

Dan Veeneman wrote:
>
> My question is, was DEC in the habit of selling or
> distributing their OS source code to third parties?
>
> If I recall correctly, VMS was written (mostly) in BLISS, but
> since my microfiche reader is still in storage I can't confirm
> the contents of these sheets.

The company I work for used to get these, so I have a box of the same
fiches. I don't think we ever _used_ them, though.

My main use for it has been to extract the parsing tables for DSR
(Digital Standard Runoff), in order to write a program to accurately
convert Runoff documents to HTML.
Received on Fri Feb 16 2001 - 01:53:54 GMT