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From: campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO UNIX <REPLACES> VMS and ULTRIX on new DEC product line
Message-ID: <1614@redsox.bsw.com>
Date: 26 Dec 90 15:23:05 GMT
References: <29014@usc> <2777E87B.6392@tct.uucp> <29027@usc> <29029@usc>
Reply-To: campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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In article <29029@usc> annala@neuro.usc.edu (A J Annala) writes:
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-My friends tell me most of VMS is coded in a DEC proprietary language
-called BLISS.  BLISS exists for PDP-11's, PDP-10's, and VAXen -- DEC ...

Almost right.  The VMS kernel is entirely, or almost entirely, written in
VAX assembler.  Many of the user-mode commands, utilities and libraries,
though, are written in BLISS.
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Larry Campbell             The Boston Software Works, Inc., 120 Fulton Street
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