SPPS was the language. Google can't find it but it's embedded in the 3651 store controller manuals.
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 06:01 Wayne Bickerdike <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought the macros were part of CONCEPT 14? I do remember working on IBM > 3684 point of sale systems between 1982 and 1986. They were programmed > using an Asembler like language called SPSS II, it had IF THEN ELSE and > other macros. > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 03:36 Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Those macros were not part of the assembler. As I recall there was a >> popular macro package called CONCEPT 101 (sp?) floating around, and another >> package called PROC, but they didn't come from IBM. >> >> >> -- >> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz >> http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf >> of Mike Schwab [[email protected]] >> Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 1:25 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: C >> >> I was doing an internship in the Chicago area during the summer of >> 1984. They were using an assembler with IF macros. >> >> On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 2:11 PM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > HLASM in 1980? Not before June 1992. I assume that you were using XF >> and H, possibly with the SLAC mods on the latter (thank you, Greg and John.) >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz >> > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 >> > >> > ________________________________________ >> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on >> behalf of Donald Blake [[email protected]] >> > Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 8:51 AM >> > To: [email protected] >> > Subject: C >> > >> > I took my first C course in 1980. The text was the original *The C >> > programming Language* by Kerrigan and Richie, which I still have on my >> > shelf, The text is copyright 1978. That's 42 years ago. I was an IBM HL >> > Assembler programmer at the time. BTW ... we still were using IFOX00 at >> the >> > time as well. >> > >> > > Hey, it's not politically correct to point out how old C is. >> > > >> > > >> > > -- >> > > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz >> > > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 >> > > >> > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> >> >> -- >> Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA >> Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
