what was VMS/OpenVMS written in?

[John A. Dundas III]

At 7:42 AM +0000 12/1/10, <arcarlini at iee.org> wrote:
>VAX/VMS started out as almost all MACRO-32 and BLISS-32 plus
>a bunch of non-native stuff that came in from RSX-11 and ran
>in compatibility mode (does that count?).

I would have answered the question with BLISS-32 and MACRO (both -32 
and -11 were used in V1.x of VMS, IIRC).

So depending on the scope of the original question, most utility 
programs were still in MACRO-11 well into V3? (at least V2; my memory 
is hazy) of VMS.

Regarding source access, I once had access to a magtape with the 
source files, in source form.  Very useful when writing/debugging 
device drivers and other kernel mode and elevated IPL code.

John