Sujet : Re: The joy of VAX
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.misc alt.folklore.computersDate : 28. Sep 2024, 00:29:29
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On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:43:13 +0100, Pancho wrote:
Ah! there we have the Internet and a Search engine. :-)
My knowledge of those documents comes from having actual paper copies
while using actual physical machines, back in the day when these systems
were new.
I'm not sure if I had that book or not. It looks like it is heavily
orientated to calling VMS system services from C. I think my problem was
calling C from Pascal. The application was Pascal based.
Pascal should have been easier. VAX Pascal (V2 and later) had all kinds of
elaborate facilities (nonstandard, of course) for low-level interfacing to
the system and to other languages, controlling storage layout in the
linker etc. It was a full-on systems programming language and no mistake.
Again, I know all this from first-hand experience.
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