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| From | Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: iBM System/3 FORTRAN for engineering/science work? |
| Date | 2021-06-26 16:40 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <sb83bn$iap$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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undefined Hancock-4 <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> writes: > On Friday, June 18, 2021 at 4:00:37 PM UTC-4, Dan Espen wrote: >> Rich Alderson <ne...@alderson.users.panix.com> writes: >> >> > undefined Hancock-4 <hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> writes: >> > >> >> Would anyone have any experience or knew of System/3 sites that used Fortra= >> >> n? If so, how did it work out for them? The impression I got was the vast= >> >> majority of S/3 sites used RPG II developed for it. >> > >> > RPG III. RPG II is the System/360 version. >> Not the way I remember it, and Wikipedia agrees with me. >> RPG II on S/3, S/34, S/36 >> >> RPG III on S/38, AS/400. >> >> RPG IV for OS/400. > > Yes. > > Then they came out with a Visual RPG. > > I don't know what is done these days on the i series machines or > whatever has succeeded the AS/400. Indeed, IBM's website is very > vague about their product lines, now talking about "solutions". Makes > and models are very vague. (Cars are like that too, these days, > Toyota offers a Corolla, but then they offer many trim lines that are > confusing. Same with Camry). > > > >> I had to rescue a failing RPG project on a Sys/34. >> One of the first things we did was order the COBOL compiler. >> I don't have any impression of the speed of the processor, just >> that it was always fast enough for our application. > > I think the COBOL language on the AS/400 was nice. But I'm not sure how well it ran. We had COBOL on a AS/400 but it ran very slow. It may have been the machine was just underpowered for what we wanted to do on it, I didn't get into the details. > > I was not a big fan of the AS/400 line. But I must admit its users > loved it. There used to be a magazine, Midrange Computing, almost a > cult following. And I must guess that setting up a new installation > cold was probably easier with an AS/400 from a Z series, probably a > lot of stuff was automated, and far less configuration and system > programming was needed. Of course, if the site got big enough, then > performance may have become an issue--large sites have do need some > configuration to keep things orderly. (And there was an AS/400 > Performance Manual). This same company with the S/34 had a pretty large mainframe. Every month the mainframe would do a manufacturing cost calculation. This run was well known for taking forever to complete. Sometimes a day or 2. I implemented my own costing algorithms on the S/34 and we'd complete the calculation in 15 or 20 minutes. I think I just had a better algorithm but I never considered the machine slow. I was not a fan of the direction the AS/400 (and S/38) went off in. I liked the S/34 because of it's simplicity. The AS/400 retained the good parts but had too much stuff you'd only find on an AS/400. I once ported a load of S/34 code to a Wang/VS system. Easy. If I was starting with an AS/400 it might not have been so easy. The COBOL compiler was a dream. Never once did I confront a dump. We put S/34s in 4 plants and a central office. The existing clerical staff was able to do everything the system needed for day to day operation. Nothing like a mainframe. -- Dan Espen
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