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From: petel@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Pete Lancashire)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: MIPS to offer COBOL
Message-ID: <197@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM>
Date: Wed, 21-Jan-87 14:19:52 EST
Article-I.D.: teksce.197
Posted: Wed Jan 21 14:19:52 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Jan-87 06:20:39 EST
References: <14392@amdcad.UUCP>
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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Summary: COBOL on the MIPS, Don't knock COBOL if you have not tried it

In article <14392@amdcad.UUCP>, phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
> In the Jan 19, 1987 San Jose Mercury News, MIPS Computer Systems is
> advertising for a COBOL compiler engineer. Oh well, I guess it has to
> happen even to the best of us.
> 
> Don't forget to get some CICS types too, while you're at it.
> 
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We had a talk by MIPS, they were very proud of their COBOL, I don't blame
them. They used *modern* compiler construction instead of rehashing an
oldie.

I'm sitting in front of my SUN trying to take data off an IBM EBCDIC tape
getting the data, sorting it, etc. Wish I had a good, fast COBOL right now.

Pete Lancashire  petel@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM
Tektronix, Inc.