"Leonard S. Berkowitz" wrote:
>
> Walter Murray asks:
>
> <<Did COBEDIT exist in 1983?  I seem to recall that support for KSAM
> copy libraries in COBOL II predated the COBEDIT utility.>>
>
> It even existed in 1981 when I worked at my first HP3000 job.

COBEDIT came with COBOL-II, which came out in the Series II/III days,
and required special firmware for the extended instruction set (for
output editing, decimal arithmetic, etc).

Jeff