On 11/19/2019 1:36 AM, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
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From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Chuck Guzis via
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To: Will Cooke via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: 3270 controller simulation

On 11/18/19 5:36 PM, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote:

I find it interesting that one of the few remaining mainframe third parties is
called Micro Focus

Is that the same Micro Focus with the x86 COBOL?

--Chuck
I don't think its really "the same" anymore since it took on much of HPEs 
software. But essentially the great grandchild of the business which I believe started 
Don Higgins 370 emulator.

https://www.mail-archive.com/ibm-main@listserv.ua.edu/msg52038.html
I think the Cobol Compiler came from the company we contracted with to do languages for us @Microdata.  They were called CSPI, something like California Software Products, Inc., in Orange County, CA.

We payed them about 40,000 apiece for a product called Microdata Express to write support compilers for Cobol and Fortran.  Intended to be competitive with the Dec PDP11, and actually was faster.  We wrote our own OS, I
was an architect with another guy of a lot of the OS.

Anyway they threw in a microcode compiler / assembler for the Microdata 3200, and also did a rework of the EPL system language tool which the system was coded in.  It originally was derived from McKeeman's XPL project.

He and his group were at UCLA, and contracted on the OS. (digressing a bit).

I heard that the 370 emulator company merged with, or was bought up by the compiler operation, and the result became MicroFocus.  The first compiler I think ran on the PC or the AT, and with the addition of the 370 emulator, it became a tool to migrate things off the mainframe, or allow support of distributed parts of
application systems on PCs.  Or that was what they wanted it to be.

thanks
Jim
I would like be able to use some of the sync comms stuff, but I don't have 
either the hardware or the software. I have used TN3270 to go from my VAX to my 
P390 but that’s about it.
Neither my P390 or my VAXen have sync cards, nor I think does my CISCO router. 
I think I could use a 3174 as a gateway but that’s a whole new can of worms...

Dave





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