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Call off the firing squad: HP grants stay of execution to OpenVMS

Phil O'Sophical Silver badge

Re: The whole 9 yards

Anyone know what languages VMS was principally written in?

From what I remember of the microcode, the core parts were Bliss32 and Macro32 (essentially VAX structured assembers) with some leftover Macro16 PDP code still there. The utilities were in everything, I remember seeing Fortran and Pascal, even some ANSI Basic. Hopefully the Pascal at least has long gone.

All that would surely have changed for the Alpha ports, though? I never had a chance to play with it post-VAX.

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