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Conference clt::vax_basic

Title:Discussions on VAX BASIC
Notice:See Topic 1779 for latest kit info
Moderator:EPS::VANDENHEUVEL
Created:Sat Jan 25 1986
Last Modified:Tue May 13 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1798
Total number of notes:7362

1796.0. "simple question on stable basic compiler" by CSC32::D_BUTLER () Mon May 05 1997 20:22

My customer is migrating from VAX to Alpha and would like to know
if BASIC 1.2 is a stable platform to use with ACMS 4.1. By this I take them
to mean - does it have any inherent problems - is this a good choice of version-
does this have any alignment problems when interfacing to a product like ACMS.

Thanks

Dave
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1796.1TLE::HAYNESTue May 06 1997 07:5411
Dave,

	DEC BASIC V1.2 is the latest available version of DEC BASIC
	(i.e. BASIC for OpenVMS Alpha).  It has a few additional
	features over V1.1 plus bug fixes.  Not knowing anything
	about ACMS I couldn't say if there were any inherent problems
	with using DEC BASIC with it.  But if they're going to use
	DEC BASIC, then they should by all means use V1.2 and not
	some older version.

Peter
1796.2Thanks for responding so quicklyCSC32::D_BUTLERTue May 06 1997 14:3118
                       <<< Note 1796.1 by TLE::HAYNES >>>

Dave,

	DEC BASIC V1.2 is the latest available version of DEC BASIC
	(i.e. BASIC for OpenVMS Alpha).  It has a few additional
	features over V1.1 plus bug fixes.  Not knowing anything
	about ACMS I couldn't say if there were any inherent problems
	with using DEC BASIC with it.  But if they're going to use
	DEC BASIC, then they should by all means use V1.2 and not
	some older version.

Peter
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Many thanks Peter. I checked a local alpha support node and analyzed the
image and sure enough it was 1.2. Thanks for your response..

Dave