Re[2]: RPG Trivia

     
     For more info visit:
     http://www.hopper.navy.mil/Info.htm
     
     Grace Murray Hopper Timeline
     1906 Born in New York 
     1928 Graduated from Vassar College with Phi Beta Kappa 
     1930 Earned her Masters in Math and Physics at Yale 
     1934 Earned her Ph.D. in Math and Physics at Yale 
     1941 Joined Vassar's faculty as a professor in Math and Physics 
     1943 Joined the Naval Reserves 
     1946 Returned to inactive duty; Joined Harvard's Computation 
     Laboratory 
     1949 Joined Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp as a senior mathematician 
     1967 Recalled to active duty 
     1971 Retired from the Navy 
     1972 Asked to come out of retirement by the Navy 
     1983 Appointed to Commodore 
     1985 Appointed to Rear Admiral 
     1986 Second retirement from the Navy; Became a consultant for Digital 
     Equipment Corp (DEC) 
     1992 Died January 1 
     

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Subject: RE: RPG Trivia
Author:  MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com at INTERNET
Date:    4/6/2001 8:50 AM


Not sure if I'm correct but here's my tuppenceworth
     
RPG2 was adopted by IBM on the System 34 and maybe even before that on the 
system 32 and System 3.  RPG (Report Program Generator) was also available 
on Wang and Digital machines - cross platform programming decades before 
Java !!  Since then the 36 used RPG2 and the 38 RPGIII and the 400 RPG400 
and RPGIV.
     
Other third party companies also developed RPG compilers for theses 
machines, notably ASNA with their RPGIII for the 36 years before IBM 
allowed the CALL PARM facility on the S/36.
     
RPG's humble origins were drawn from the punch card days ( with all those 
chads)
     
I'm not sure if the lady you mention was Grace Hopper who is credited with 
inventing the term bug - I think she passed away recently.
     
If any of the above is incorrect please accept my apologies - especially 
Grace Hopper if she is reading this.
     
Jamie Coles
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