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Re: Interesting Find

I've taught RPG on everything from IBM...4300 mainframes, all the midrange.
And I've taught RPG on DEC VAX...pretty good implementation. RPG on a
Southwest Technical System (SWTC) system...not a lot of those. And
Burroughs B20s. And HP3Ks.

RPG was probably an easy language to port. The parsing of the input code
must have been trivial. Things like Look Ahead and Matching Records and
Fetch Overflow were more difficult for vendors, but other than that it must
have been easy to implement.

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 1:28 AM, Camiel Vanderhoeven <iamcamiel@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I know for a fact - a friend of mine worked there - that DEC had a group of
people whose job was to wrestle customers away from IBM. Their main tool?
An RPG compiler.

Camiel
Op 28 jul. 2015 4:45 AM schreef "Luis Rodriguez" <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx>:

Dan,

Thanks for the link, it brought back a lot of memories. Those HP sure
had a
nice "2001" look, more so compared to the nonsense, industrial design of
the S/3x line.

A couple of pages downward there is an advertisement for decollators and
paper busters from TAB. We had a couple of the products in the ad and I
spent some time in front of them...

Best regards,

Sent from my Nexus 7 tablet. Please excuse my brevity.
On Jul 27, 2015 17:55, "Dan" <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The HP 3000 was supposed to be the IBM mini killer, if my memory serves
correctly.

https://goo.gl/AI8LEH

A trip in the wayback machine.

- Dan

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Luis Rodriguez <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Jim,

"Back in the days" several system providers offered their own RPG
dialect
in order to, I guess, wrest away IBM customers. In the '80s, the
company
I
worked for flirted for a little time with the idea of porting our
S/34
programs and data to other companies. Right now I remember Wang and
HP
(don't know if we checked Unisys). Regarding HP, what I remember is
that
the programming environment was more flexible, with better debugging
facilities and easier to design display files.

Just googling around a little I found this old document:

http://www.teamnaconsulting.com/compresources/pdfs/30318-90011.pdf

Thanks for the memories. :-)

Best Regards,

Luis

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries
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On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Jim Hawkins <jhawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I was doing some Google to find an example of how to code something
and
stumbled on this:





https://public.support.unisys.com/aseries/docs/clearpath-mcp-16.0/pdf/860007
42-103.pdf
Unisys Report Program Generator (RPG) dated 2008.
I skimmed through it quick (out of curiosity) some of the examples
look
like
RPGII code. Thought some of you might find this interesting.


Jim Hawkins
Programmer/Analyst
Interkal LLC


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