On 4/9/14, 9:29 AM, John McKown wrote:
OK, not a big mainframe impact. But how many of us started programming by
using Basic on something like an Apple ][?
https://www.dartmouth.edu/basicfifty/
Maybe not a BIG mainframe impact, but BASIC certainly had it's place in
the mainframe sun, starting with VS BASIC, program product 5748-XX1.
Between 1979 and 1981 I worked for Ryan-McFarland, developers of
RM-BASIC, RM-FORTRAN and RM-COBOL. My last project at RMC was to help
port RM-BASIC to both VM and OS/MVS. I left before the project was
completed, but it did eventually come to market as BASIC/VM (Program
Number 5668-996) and BASIC/MVS (Program Number 5665-948).
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