5 Apr
2020
5 Apr
'20
4:56 p.m.
On 4/5/20 4:39 PM, Jay Jaeger via cctalk wrote:
On 4/5/2020 12:47 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
I got my Computer Science degree in '86 and most of the programming for
my classwork was in C and ran on BSD UNIX on a 11/750. I also worked in
the school's computer center on a DECsystem-20.
My first job out of school was doing system software at Burroughs. The
stuff that I was working on initially ran on all three lines of
Burroughs mainframes sold at the time and, at Burroughs then, that meant
it was written in COBOL. So, my first week at Burroughs was spent
learning COBOL.
At school, everyone said that COBOL was evil. But after I had worked
with it for a while, though I thought it was verbose, I didn't find it
that bad to work with.
alan
On 4/4/20 10:15 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Stories like this abound. Wasn't California DMV running RCA Spectrolas
well into the 80s?
--Chuck
I did write some COBOL on the IBM 1410 which I worked on while I was a
student (COBOL for which was surprisingly capable), DOS/VS, OS/360, MVS,
and so on. I found it to be: