VSI BASIC for OpenVMS
~ This is a work in progess ~
"HP BASIC for OpenVMS" is a commercial strength BASIC with many Fortran-like extensions. One of its biggest strengths is built-in support for OpenVMS's Record Management Services allowing direct manipluation of sequential, relative, and indexed files (up to 255 keys).
Note that this language has gone through many name changes due to the merger-mania of 1997-2002.
- VAX BASIC was originally written for DEC's 32-bit VAX computer running VMS.
- When DEC invented their 64-bit DEC Alpha chip, VMS was ported to it an renamed OpenVMS. VAX BASIC was ported to Alpha and named DEC BASIC.
- When DEC was purchased by Compaq, both products were renamed "Compaq BASIC for OpenVMS VAX" and Compaq BASIC for OpenVMS Alpha"
- When Compaq merged with HP, both products were renamed "HP BASIC for OpenVMS VAX" and "HP BASIC for OpenVMS Alpha". Since Compaq/HP have decided to build new server platforms based upon Intel's 64-bit Itanium chip, we can only assume that we'll eventually see "HP BASIC for OpenVMS Itanium"
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