> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 14:35:18 -0600 > From: Hunter Goatley <goathun...@goatley.com>
> On 1/26/2018 2:22 PM, Timothe Litt wrote: >> BLISS would have done better in the outside world, except for the >> DECision to price it higher than the market would bear. > Indeed! I was fortunate to get access to BLISS in college thanks to > DEC's CSLG program, but it was their second-most expensive compiler > license (after Ada), so virtually no one outside of DEC used it. When > they originally released Alpha, they weren't planning to make the BLISS > compiler available, but I and others worked to try to get DEC to change > that. As I'm sure you know, in the end, they released it with a free > license for both VAX and Alpha (and Itanium), but it was far too late > for most people to have any interest in adopting it. I still do some > BLISS coding, but I'm one of the few that I know of still doing it. In fact, when Digital announced the free licensing for BLISS-32 and BLISS-16, I immediately got in touch with our contact within Digital (help me out, Tim, what was Dick's last name? the guy who helped XKL get the 36-bit stuff and introduced you and me in Marlboro) about getting BLISS-36 released the same way. There may not have been a large market for it, but I wanted to make sure that XKL's customers had access if they wanted it. Rich _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh