The Goat's Notes
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In late January, 1984 NCR Corp. announced its I-Tower running the Ryan-McFarland Commercial Operating System (RM-COS). RM-COS is designed specifically to run business applications written in RM-COBOL in an interactive multi-user environment. It offers multiple capabilities, including true record-level locking, interactive and batch JCL, printer spooling, IBM-compatible tape support, data compression, multi- level hierarchical directories, 2780-3780 remote batch emulation, full multitasking, and full ANSI 74 Level II Sort-Merge capabilities. The RM-COBOL compiler, based on the ANSI 74 standard, also provides many notable features including multi- keyed indexed files, record and file level file locking, interactive debugging, full arithmetic capability, COBOL COPY statement, segmentation and dynamic memory management, extended interactive screen handling, and variable names for SELECT and CALL statements.
Publication Name: NCR Monthly
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0892-3817
Year: 1984
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The Goat's Notes
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Unix portability is not as portable as might be thought. Depending upon the differences in architectures of the two machines involved, it might be necessary to rewrite much of the code. Such is the case when migrating from a Zilog Z-8000 to a DEC VAX- 11-750. Though more than ninety-eight per cent of the code compiled without error on the VAX, it was nonetheless necessary to change about half of it to get the desired results. On NCR's Tower 1632, though Unix still has problems, NCR has done a decent job of concealing its most hideous aspects. Running on the Tower, Unix looks like a real business operating environment which is no small feat.
Publication Name: NCR Monthly
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0892-3817
Year: 1983
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The Goat's Notes
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UNIX is emerging into a popular operating system. It is used on almost every 16-bit microprocessing system. NCR plans to use the UNIX operating system as an alternative for its systems. This popularity is attributed to features such as; programmer's workbench that contains software development tools, shell or command processor that provides ease of development of systems control functions and the concept of standard I-O and pipeline. UNIX contains three kinds of files, a directory for each user and lists of system commands.
Publication Name: NCR Monthly
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0892-3817
Year: 1983
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