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5 unusual facts about HP BASIC for OpenVMS


HP BASIC

HP BASIC for OpenVMS - Created at DEC, now transferred to HP; PDP, VAX, and VMS platforms

HP BASIC for OpenVMS

When DEC was purchased by Compaq in 1997/98, the products were renamed Compaq BASIC for OpenVMS VAX and Compaq BASIC for OpenVMS Alpha.

HP BASIC has many FORTRAN-like extensions, as well as supporting the original Dartmouth BASIC matrix operators.

Before VAX BASIC (as it was then called), you would only get native RMS support in DEC's COBOL compiler.

Likewise, when Compaq merged with HP in 2001/02, the products were renamed HP BASIC for OpenVMS on VAX and HP BASIC for OpenVMS on AlphaServer.



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