submitted by:  Frank R. Borger
                            Dept. of Medical Physics
                          Michael Reese Medical Center
                              2929 So. Ellis Ave.
                              Chicago, Ill. 60616
                                 (312) 791-2515


     Modified for the VAX by Joe Bingham, VAX  Systems  SIG  Librarian  and
     Glenn Everhart, RSX SIG Librarian



          These programs were submitted  for  the  RSX  SIG  tape  but  are
     included  here  because  they  are  probably  of  interest  to the VAX
     community.

     1.  [.BASIC]

              This directory contains the Michael Reese BASIC  interpreter.
         You  can just give the command RUN [.BASIC]RSXBASIC to try it out,
         but define a symbol as a foreign command in your system  login.com
         (e.g.   BAS*IC  == "$SYS$SYSDEVICE:[VAX84A.RSXSIG.BASIC]RSXBASIC")
         for general use so you can include the file you want to use on the
         command line (e.g.  BAS MYFILE).  Macro-11 sources and other files
         from the RSX distribution are included.  See [.BASIC]AAAREADME.DOC
         for  some  VAX  specific  information,  [.BASIC]BASIC.MEM  for the
         reference manual.

     2.  [.MURPHY]

              This directory contains MAY and  MURPHY,  two  more  programs
         with a (fortune) COOKIE flavor.