In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/05/2006
at 05:45 PM, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>It's impossible these days to know whether or not the usual
>associations apply. COBOL *IS* mainframe. Other COBOLs are derived
>from "mainframe" COBOL. In other words in days gone by, let's say 30
>years ago to be safe, you wouldn't have asked for "mainframe" COBOL
>but you might have asked for IBM COBOL or Burroughs COBOL or <any of
>the other six dwarfs> COBOL.
Six? There were the BUNCH, Bendix, GE, Philco, RCA and SDS.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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