21 Mar
2018
21 Mar
'18
2:48 p.m.
On 3/20/18, Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
Paul can correct me, but I don't think DEC even developed a Pascal for TOPS
originally - IIRC the one I used came from the universities. I think the
first Pascal sold was targeted for the VAX. Also, RT11 and RSX were
'laboratory' systems and those systems were dominated by Fortran back in
the day - so DEC marketing thought in those terms.
DEC did do a Pascal for RSX. I don't remember if it supported RT11 or
RSTS. DEC did a BASIC compiler for RSTS and RSX. RSX and especially
RT were designed mainly for real-time process control in laboratories.
A lot of the programming was in assembler for efficiency reasons
(both time and space).
-Paul W.