Why? Because we used to run out of resources regularly on that machine writing the stuff in EBB, which was also compiled (I may be wrong, but I seem to remember compiling stuff on it). And BASIC, even EBB, is generally smaller than COBOL.
On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 at 21:04, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > On 4/7/20 2:38 PM, Neil Thompson via cctalk wrote: > > I never used COBOL on the 150x machines, all of our stuff was done in EBB > > (Extended Business Basic), which was a rather bletcherous language > IIRC. I > > must admit, I'm rather surprised to learn that something as big a COBOL > > would fit on the machine. > > > > Why? I have COBOL running on the Z80 with 48KB of memory and on > the LSI-11 with 28KW of memory. > > bill >
