6 Dec
2018
6 Dec
'18
12:26 a.m.
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 13:01, Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
I'm not sure which languages did eventually get
supported and on which
versions of Ultrix. But once Paul's lk was released (and you can still
find it in /bin on the base Ultrix distributions), you did indeed see a
number of the languages move to Ultrix. I think for the Vax it was just
VAX/11C, Fortran and Pascal. I think Ultrix11 may have gotten Fortran, but
as I said; I don't remember. I do remember the TIG folks talking about a
PL/1 project and a proposal for Cobol and RP/G because some of the Wall
Street types wanted them, but I don't remember any of those getting
released (that said, I was also not watching things Vaxen by that time).
By the time I came back to Ultrix to do the MIPS 4000 stuff a few years
later, tech languages offerings were different and the GEM compilers had
come on the scene.
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/vax/ultrix-32/4.0_Jun90/AA-MG63B…
seems to imply that as of Ultrix 4.0, there were COBOL and Ada compilers
for the VAX (Table 4-1). Elsewhere VAX LISP for Ultrix is mentioned, which
I had no idea existed. I hope that these compilers have been preserved
somewhere, as I imagine they sold in relatively small quantities.
-Henry