Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!decvax!tektronix!ogcvax!omsvax!icalqa!hplabs!sri-unix!Bakin.SSID@hi-multics From: Bakin.SSID%hi-multics@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Re: DEC Rainbow questions Message-ID: <12687@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Sun, 16-Oct-83 03:01:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12687 Posted: Sun Oct 16 03:01:00 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Oct-83 03:17:20 EDT Lines: 23 Thanks for that info! I gather MS-languages to include Pascal and Fortran? Hopefully, Pascal can call Fortran and vice versa? I am waiting to hear just a bit more before buying. I have one major concern that you might explain to me and info-cpm? I have used DEC-10s, DEC-20s, PDP-11s, and various Vaxen.... While I have noticed enormous amounts of software available from third party vendors for each of those machines, the primary writer was DEC. I can expect no one but Digital to have any real interest in keeping the Rainbow alive. Hence, I can expect no one but Digital to write complete systems for the Rainbow, be it mutually callable languages, OS updates, Mail Systems, what have you. Yet as far as I can tell, DEC has not written much for the Rainbow. This seems to leave a gaping hole which cannot be filled by third parties. What are DEC's future plan's for the Rainbow? They now have CP/M and MSDOS, what about a multitasking OS? CCPM? Unix? How about some munged version of RT or RSX that supports DCL? (RT-86?) It seems horribly brain damaged that DEC doesn't write software for its machine. Please! Tell me why I'm wrong in that opinion! Jerry Bakin