cwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose) (12/01/89)
With reference to Ruediger Soerensen's recent message about COBOL, I had the
same problem when I needed a COBOL for some classes I was taking. Ellis
Computing, 3917 Noriega Street, San Francico, CA 94122 (when last heard of)
used to do a CP/M COBOL. They now do an MSDOS COBOL, and have abandoned CP/M
completely, won't even sell it. I got a copy of *their* compiler from England
- it was being sold on 3" (sic) disks for the Amstrad range of machines. I
don't have an address for the seller, but there were (18 months ago) several.
This COBOL is the ANSI 78 version, and a bit limited. It got me through the
course, which mostly used the more structured 85 (?) version, but I had to
leave more complex control structures out of my code. I'm sorry, but I can't
remember the detailed differences. It was cheap, ran on my generic CP/M
machines, and did the job. I didn't like it, but I probably wouldn't like any
COBOL; I don't do the sort of jobs it was designed for.
Hope this helps - Will
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