BABY/4XX

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Baby/400 is an emulation of a RPG III/IV or RPG/400 development environment running on an IBM AS/400 originally published by California Software Products.

History

In the early 90s it was originally available for OS/2 and DOS but later with versions for Microsoft Windows and Novell NetWare as well. The system allows to develop and debug software for the AS/400, to use the system as an alternative to a AS/400 and run RPG/400 software on the Baby/400 as a single user or optionally a multi-user system. It was also supplied with an RPG/400 compiler that targeted DOS, Windows and OS/2. Applications can be distributed to PCs, that however required a license fee based on each program delivered in a PC format.

The system was officially renamed Baby/4xx after a trademark complaint from IBM although industry publications and users continued to refer to the system as Baby/400.

Version

  • Baby/400 version 4
Last version to support OS/2, Novell NetWare and Windows 3.x
  • Baby/400 version 5 (1998)
Runs only on Microsoft Windows NT or 95, adds ODBC compliance, a new GUI and links to Windows printer drivers.