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> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 07:53:54 +0000
> From: Paul Williams <flo_at_rdel.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: VMS 4.4 source code on microfiche
>
> 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.
>
Here's the word from the OpenVMS FAQ:
http://www.openvms.compaq.com/wizard/openvms_faq.txt
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VMS8. In what language is OpenVMS written?
OpenVMS is written in a wide variety of languages.
In no particular order, OpenVMS components are implemented using Bliss,
Macro, Ada, PLI, VAX and DEC C, Fortran, UIL, VAX and Alpha SDL, Pascal,
MDL, DEC C++, DCL, Message, and Document. And this is certainly not a
complete list.
However, the rumor is NOT true that an attempt was made
to write pieces of OpenVMS in every supported language so that the
Run-Time Libraries could not be unbundled. (APL, BASIC, COBOL and RPG
are just some of the languages NOT represented!)
There are a large variety of small and not-so-small tools and DCL command
procedures that are used as part of the OpenVMS build, and a source code
control system capable of maintaining over a hundred thousand source
files
across multiple parallel development projects, and overlapping releases.
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And what you've got are source LISTINGS, not source CODE.
You can't compile them and come up with workable VMS.
I think that I once read that historically, compiling and linking the
newest
version of VMS usually takes a full weekend on the fastest machine
available.
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William W. Webb, EDS, c/o USPS CMF/OSS/MS
4924 Green Road Raleigh, NC 27616 919 874 3043
> 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.
>
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