[TUHS] FORTRAN

[Paul Winalski]

On 3/20/18, Clem Cole <clemc at 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.