what was VMS/OpenVMS written in?

[Gene Buckle]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> At 7:50 PM -0500 11/30/10, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Dennis Boone <drb at msu.edu> wrote:
>>  > For 7.3ish VAX OS source proper (includes RTLs, but no translators or
>>>  layered products), on VERY casual inspection, it looks like about 3000
>>>  files of MACRO, 2900 of Bliss, 1400 of C, 155 of message definitions, 65
>>>  of Fortran, 35 of Ada, 20 of command definitions, 10 of PL/1, 10 of
>>>  Pascal, 5 of Uil, a few DCL.
>> 
>> Sure.  I can see that.
>>
>>>  I can't find any COBOL, BASIC, MODULA, CORAL, DIBOL, etc.
>> 
>> In 7.3, I'm sure that's now true.  I'm pretty sure I remember some
>> COBOL and BASIC back in the 4.x and 5.x days, but I can't promise that
>> my memory is 100% correct.
>
> Ethan, I'm pretty sure your memory is correct.  Something else to consider is 
> just what does a source CD contain the source for?  I've never seen one. :-( 
> But as I understand it, you have the basic OS, some of the other components 
> aren't included from what I've heard.
>
Was/is there an x86 version of VMS?

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