Re: IBM and float decimal

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From: adaworks
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"Tom Linden" <tom@kednos.com> wrote in message
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> Actually they introduced the System 3 in a vareity of models, and they
> were eventually replaced by the sytem 32, 34, 35, 38 and then the AS400,
> The 32 came out around 1975, IIRC
>
Right.  I completely forgot about the System 3.  It was one of the
models I never actually programmed.  It was still pretty much a
batch processing system.

The System 32 and its successors competed with the likes of BASIC Four,
Microdata, and a lot of other interactive computers of the time.



Richard Riehle

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