> On Mar 27, 2020, at 8:42 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 3/27/20 8:25 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>>> On Mar 27, 2020, at 6:12 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a .tap image of a DIBOL install tape for RSTS?
>>>
>>> And while I am at it, was there ever RPG for RSTS?
>>>
>>> I am so bored I have decided to really load up a SIMH system
>>> and just live in the past for a while. I have Fortran-IV,
>>> Fortran-77, COBOL-81 and C installed now as well as BASIC and
>>> MACRO. But I haven't had the chance to do any DIBOL or RPG
>>> for quite some time and would love to try them again.
>> If you want to try something entirely different, dig up the FORTH runtime
>> system that's part of the V10.1 "unsupported" kit. It's a neat language.
>> Still in use, in fact.
>
> I used that FIG FORTH package ages ago on real PDP-11's.
> Was never impressed with Forth so much. Only time I was
> impressed was when I worked with OpenPROM which was all
> written in Forth. Wanted to do one for the PDP-11 but
> lost interest when Sun gave it to IEEE and they wanted
> several thousand dollars just to look at it.
>
> Now I am more interested in sticking with the serious
> business languages that ran on the PDP-11.
>
> bill
Ok. The RSTS Forth is more than FIG-FORTH; it adds the FORTH-83 (FORTH-79?)
language standard features. I used it for several applications, the biggest by
far is SDA, an interactive RSTS crash dump analyzer. 4600 lines of code... It
should be in the kit.
paul
