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A free copy of DEC's original COBOL compiler for the VAX can be found in the VMS 1.0 image at this site: https://www.wherry.com/gadgets/retrocomputing/vax-simh
by chasil 3y ago
A free copy of DEC's original COBOL compiler for the VAX can be found in the VMS 1.0 image at this site:
https://www.wherry.com/gadgets/retrocomputing/vax-simh.html https://www.wherry.com/gadgets/retrocomputing/vax-simh.html
Modern GNU COBOL can be found at this site:
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnucobol/ https://www.gnu.org/software/gnucobol/
A great deal of the COBOL that we use relies on OS2200 DMS, originally from Univac.
- skissane 3y ago> A free copy of DEC's original COBOL compiler for the VAX can be found in the VMS 1.0 image at this site: Where? I don't see any VMS 1.0 image linked to on that page. Instead I see instructions to join the HP OpenVMS hobbyist program, which no longer exists, in order to install OpenVMS 7.3 on an emulated MicroVAX. There is no longer any hobbyist program offering legal access to VMS for VAX. HP's hobbyist program was terminated and replaced by VSI's, which never included VAX (and more recently they appear to have dropped Alpha and Itanium, making it x86 only). Licenses to legally run VMS for VAX are very limited (e.g. maybe buy a used MicroVAX or VAXstation which comes with a VMS license)
- chasil 3y agoSorry, I posted the wrong link. I have downloaded all of this and run it on a rhel9 clone. https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_VMS_V1.0_on_SIMH https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_VMS_V1.0_on_SIMH