Re: Interesting Find -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Interesting Find
From: John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 16:18:24 -0400
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On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Luis Rodriguez <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Back in the days" several system providers offered their own RPG dialect
in order to, I guess, wrest away IBM customers.

It could be that they were trying to entice IBM customers. I also find
it completely plausible that other companies simply *liked* RPG and
decided it would be nice to implement their own version of it.

In the '80s, the company I worked for flirted for a little
time with the idea of porting our S/34 programs and
data to other companies. Right now I remember Wang
and HP (don't know if we checked Unisys).

If it was early in the '80s, Unisys may not have existed yet. You may
have looked at Burroughs, before their merger with Sperry.

John Y.

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