1 Mar
2004
1 Mar
'04
10:26 p.m.
At 11:07 PM 3/1/04 -0500, Chandra wrote:
Radio Shack used sell Ryan-McFarland
BASIC/COBOL/Fortran? compilers for
the TRS-80 Model II/12/16. Outside of Radio Shack, they may have been a
small player in the CP/M compiler space. COBOL was their most
successful product.
I've seen RM Cobol for the PC a number of times. In fact, I recently
found a complete set of docs, orginal box, notes, etc but missing the
disks. IBM's "Professional Fortran" for the PC was also written by RM.
But this is the first time I've heard of RM BASIC.
Ryan-McFard still exists (kind of) as Liant Corp.
http://www.liant.com/
A google search turns up some interesting history:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=…
d+compilers
Thanks for the URLs.
Joe
-Chandra
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Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 10:59 PM
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Subject: ryan-McFarland BASIC?
Today I got two boxs of old Intel computer manuals that a friend of
mine
dug up in Vermont. In one of the manuals are some brochures for
Ryan-McFarland BASIC. I've never heard of RM BASIC for any system
before.
Anybody know anything about it?
Joe