7 Apr
2020
7 Apr
'20
3:24 p.m.
Why? Because we used to run out of resources regularly on that machine
writing the stuff in EBB, which was also compiled (I may be wrong, but I
seem to remember compiling stuff on it). And BASIC, even EBB, is generally
smaller than COBOL.
On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 at 21:04, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 4/7/20 2:38 PM, Neil Thompson via cctalk wrote:
I never used COBOL on the 150x machines, all of
our stuff was done in EBB
(Extended Business Basic), which was a rather bletcherous language
IIRC. I
must admit, I'm rather surprised to learn
that something as big a COBOL
would fit on the machine.
Why? I have COBOL running on the Z80 with 48KB of memory and on
the LSI-11 with 28KW of memory.
bill