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-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Charles Mills [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2022 4:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: FORMAC was ABP I don't know the language at all but FORMAC sounds to me like a 6-letter (hello, FORTRAN!) portmanteau of FORTRAN and MACRO. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2022 1:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: FORMAC was ABP My recollection is that FORMAC was in the 1960s and was FORTRAN based, but memory is the 2nd thing to go. I can't remember the 1st. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
