Jim,

For one reason HP Basic is compatibility mode or octcomped. No native
mode. The programs could be converted to HP Business Basic XL but that
assumes you have the source.

John Zoltak
North American Mfg Co

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Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 1:44 PM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Replacing Software (Was: Trashed DB)


Tracy Johnson writes:

>At my job we've replaced Growthpower in a couple of places with
CA-MANMAN.

Please note that I'm not picking on Growthpower in particular, I'm
just interested in seeing what you-all consider valid reasons for
replacing software.

>This is not a great technology leap, (HP BASIC to FORTRAN)

Funny, but I've never considered language as "technology" per se.
I always considered the language as the technology enabler.
I've been on some other computers where you had to use a certain
language if you wanted to do something esoteric (like muck about
in the file system), but most of them were similar to the HP3K:
System intrinsics are callable from any language.  Now, I don't
know a whole lot about HP Basic, but I am *assuming* (uh-oh!)
that it can call system intrinsics.  If so, then there should
be no technological barrier to using HP Basic for any application.

>but mainly to
>move to an application that works properly and is Y2K compliant.

Definitely valid reasons to move from one piece of software to
another, regardless of the language the software is written in.

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