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From: dbp@Data-IO.COM (Dave Pellerin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Contaminated Cheese -- oops, I meant DEC PCs...
Keywords: MS-COBOL, DEC Rainbow
Message-ID: <1996@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 25 May 89 16:11:10 GMT
Reply-To: dbp@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Dave Pellerin)
Organization: The Boneless Chicken Farm
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My dear old Auntie is a consultant who sells trash systems (actually,
computer systems for waste disposal companies) and she needs some
help.

It seems a potential customer has his eye on a pile of used DEC Rainbow
computers, and wants to know if her stuff will port to the Rainbow from
the MS-DOS environment it runs in. The garbage software in question is
written in MS-COBOL. So...

	- Does MS-COBOL run on the DEC rainbow?

	- Are MS-COBOL applications developed on the IBM PC object code
	  compatible on the Rainbow?

	- How do you get the object files from the IBM PC to the
	  Rainbow (remember, the Rainbow has brain-damaged disks)?
	  Will Kermit work?

If there is anyone in the Pacific Northwest who has done a similar port:
ya wanna make a few bucks?


				- Dave Pellerin

			remember - Garbage In, Garbage Out!