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From: riceg
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 07:03

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> little PDP-11/23. DEC released the whole operating system plus
> some languages and even DECnet to DECUS. And the DECUS C also
> runs on the PRO. I don't know if it is still available but
> there was even a version of UNIX & RSTS for the PRO. 
> 
> Languages for the PRO included BASIC, Fortran, C, Pascal,
> Datatrieve, and I think possibly Cobol.

Well, almost true. DEC released PRO/Basic and the Macro Assembler
into the public domain but did NOT release Fortran, Pascal, C,
Cobol or Datatrieve.

How do I know? I was the one who negotiated the "deal" with DEC
to release the things that they did.


Gary Rice
PRO Enthusiast

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