[Info-vax] Micro Focus Merger with Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Software Business Segment

[Paul Sture]

On 2016-09-09, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Friday, 9 September 2016 07:14:29 UTC+1, Hans Vlems  wrote:
>> MicroFocus rings a bell, weren't they responsible for one or more
>> compilers for Tru64? (istr Fortran?)
>
> Tradtionally, Micro Focus were known as a load of COBOLers.
>
> Even on Tru64:
> http://h41361.www4.hpe.com/mfcobol/
> "Micro Focus software for Tru64 UNIX
>
> Micro Focus provides the application development community with the
> industry standard COBOL for legacy application development. It enables
> organizations the ability to transform enterprise applications for the
> changing technology and business requirements of the e-business
> environment, manage the application development process, and provide
> integrated data connectivity across the enterprise, from the mainframe
> to the internet.
>
> [etc]"

Well I never...

The DEC/Compaq/HP COBOL documentation contains copious details of
the differences in implementation between VMS and Tru64.

So in fact there were/are two COBOL compilers available for Tru64.

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