On 4/16/2014 1:12 PM, Eric Chevalier wrote:
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).
My very first programming language was BASIC on a mainframe (under CALL/OS). -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
