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Re: Did COBEDIT exist in 1983?
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Brian Stephens <[log in to unmask]>
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Brian Stephens <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:28:41 -0500
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I actually have a series III Cobol board!!! It says COBOL II(FP) which I
believe was for floating point arithmetic date of manufacture is 1977....
Good grief I'm getting old!

-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Jeff Kell
Sent: November 11, 1999 8:42 AM
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Subject: Re: Did COBEDIT exist in 1983?


"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

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