what was VMS/OpenVMS written in?

[Tony Duell]

> 
> At 02:34 PM 12/2/2010, Tony Duell wrote:
> >> > "Baby duck syndrome"
> >   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >What is this?
> 
> Let me google that for you.  Maybe you'll debug something for me someday.

Thank you...

I make the same offer as I've always made. If I receive any personal 
e-mail about classic computers, I will respond. The repoly may be 'sorry, 
I have never come across that machine' or '$ccperson is the expert on 
that machine'. But if you ask about something I have some knowledge off, 
I _will_ try to help. Period. 

> 
> "Baby Duck Syndrome denotes the tendency for computer users to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Imprinting_(psychology)>"imprint" on 
> the first system they learn, then judge other systems by their similarity 
> to that first system. The result is that "users generally prefer systems 
> similar to those they learned on and dislike unfamiliar systems."[1] The 
> term may have been inspired by popular understanding of the work, 
> experiences, and observations of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Konrad_Lorenz>Konrad Lorenz."

Oh right... I don't think I suffer from that. The first disk OS I used 
was not suprisingly CP/M. And yet I find unix much nicer than, say, RT11 
of VMS. The first assembly language I learnt was Z80 (and SC/MP at about 
the same time), but I find 6809 and PDP11 assembly to be a lot more pleasant.

-tony