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

[Jay E. Morris]

On 9/9/2016 4:52 AM, Paul Sture wrote:
> 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.
>

Wow.  I think I just finally threw out my two 3.5" disks containing 
MicroFocus' COBOL for PC. Circa 1985 or so.