Re: ACS Optima software ?

[Al Barsa <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ACS was absolutely migrated to the System/38, although it looked very
System/36 ish.

The database was externalized, and it ran well in systems with enough
memory, which the System/38 never had,  To make it run faster, I wrote (and
published) the Remove Unnecessary RPG Subroutines (RMVURPGSR) command,
which sped it up greatly in these small memory machines.

Ultimately, it was sold to a remarketer in NYC.

Al

Al Barsa, Jr.
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

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ACS started out as Apparel Computer Systems in Concord, CA. It was founded
in the 70's by Lou Jenkins. It was fairly successful in selling into the
apparel industry. Platform was S/34, then S/36. I don't recall if he ever
had a S/38 product. At any rate, the apparel industry began to get
pressured by the retailers to get into what became known as EDI. Lou saw
the benefits of being able to accommodate these requests, and sat a team
of programmers down to write telecommunications software that interfaced
between his package and the software being used by the retailers. T-Spec
and ICF programming being what it was, I pitied those poor programmers (my
company shared some office space with ACS).

Eventually Lou sold ACS and focused his efforts on the EDI software. His
next software company eventually became Premenos, which became Harbinger,
etc., etc. When Lou sold Premenos, the story going around the Bay area was
that he retired and went sailing. Perhaps those list lurkers in the San
Francisco area can shed some additional light. Many of the programmers in
the over 45 age group in the Bay area seem to have worked for ACS/Premenos
at one time or another.


Paul Nelson
Arbor Solutions, Inc.
708-670-6978  Cell
pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx





"Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Anyone familiar with ACP Optima software ? Just curious, have a friend
working on this software and I'd never heard of it.



http://www.cgsinc.com/services/application/supplychain/acs/



Chuck

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