On 26-Jan-18 15:12, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2018-01-26 20:26, Clem Cole wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 2:09 PM, Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se
>> <mailto:b...@softjar.se>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Right. As far as I know, BLISS-16 only ran under VMS.
>>
>> Hmm I'd be careful here.   As I understand it,​ Hobbs has implied
>> they did the work on the 10 to start with because at the time TLG was
>> using PDP-10s.   As one of the language designers, I'd believe him. 
>> That said, what saw the light of day as product I can not say, I was
>> not paying attention to that in those days.   Phil or Tim might know.
>
> Looked around some more, and it seems both BLISS-16 and BLISS-32 could
> be run under the PDP-10. Oh well. Never seen or heard about that in
> real life, but I guess it must have existed at one point then.
>
I used both in real life. 

I don't believe either was released externally.

BLISS would have done better in the outside world, except for the
DECision to price it higher than the market would bear.

>     Johnny
>

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