Second release of the HP 3000 Series III simulator
Keven Miller
kevenm at reeltapetransfer.com
Fri Jul 8 06:37:34 CDT 2016
You still have FORTRAN (66), RPG, SPL, and BASIC;
besides the 2 COBOL compilers.
Keven Miller
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From: "SPC" <spedraja at ono.com>
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Sent: Fri 08 Jul 2016 12:57 AM
Subject: Re: Second release of the HP 3000 Series III simulator
2016-07-07 17:36 GMT+02:00 J. David Bryan <jdbryan at acm.org>:
> The second release of the HP 3000 Series III simulator is now available
> from the Computer History Simulation Project (SIMH) site:
>
> [...]
> ...has been updated to add the following features:
>
> - Preinstalled User-Defined Commands (UDCs) provide access to the COBOL
> 74 compiler with the MPE-V/E :COBOLII, :COBOLIIPREP, and :COBOLIIGO
> commands, and to the COBOL 85 compiler with :COBOLIIX,
> :COBOLIIXPREP, and :COBOLIIXGO. However, note that the simulator
> currently does not provide the HP 32234A COBOL II firmware
> instructions, so programs generated by the COBOLII compiler will
> abort at run time with "ILLEGAL INSTRUCTION" errors, limiting the
> current utility of the compilers to syntax checking.
>
>
>
So I assume that we can make operative programs *only* with the COBOL 74
compiler, Isn't so ?
Kind Regards
Sergio
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