RPG was designed for the same application niche as the tabulators, but it didn't deal with emitters, hubs and individual columns. Everything was in terms of fields. The same is true for FARGO.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Enzo D'Amato [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 30, 2022 2:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: my new z114 If I remember correctly, RPG was originally based on the function of the electro-mechanical accounting machines. ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2022 1:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: my new z114 I'd say that spec looks more like RPG than like a 407; you only identify the beginning and end of a field and don't need to specify every column individually. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Dave Jones [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 30, 2022 9:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: my new z114 A bit off topic here, but the IBM 407 lives on as the "spec" stage in the CMS Pipelines utility. From the reference document: "Rest assured that no hardware knowledge is required to use spec effectively. But you will have a head start if you have past experience with the IBM 407 Accounting Machine, which influenced the design of spec." Spec is basically the 407 implemented in software. See: https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vm.ibm.com%2Flibrary%2F720pdfs%2F72625201.pdf&data=05%7C01%7Csmetz3%40gmu.edu%7Cd2fa90f5ecb44670bda808da4268db88%7C9e857255df574c47a0c00546460380cb%7C0%7C0%7C637895315814178567%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ESMMptN7w8p9rrVv%2FeDzcZkV334i4j0rCj0V2GO9Sv4%3D&reserved=0 for more details. DJ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
