Baby/36

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An emulation of an RPG II development environment running on an IBM System/36 originally published by California Software Products in the latter half of the 80s for DOS. It quickly followed with an OS/2 version and later with versions for Microsoft Windows and Novell Netware as well. The system allowed developing and debug software for the System/36 (and S/34), to use the system as an alternative to an S/36 and run RPG II software on the Baby/36 as a single user or optionally a multi-user system. It also shipped with an RPG II compiler for DOS that allowed to distribute applications to PC customers that were running plain DOS, that however required a license fee based on each program you delivered in a PC format.

Version

  • Baby/36 version 8 (1998)
Runs only on Microsoft Windows NT or 95, adds ODBC compliance, a new GUI and links to Windows printer drivers. First B/36 system that is Year 2000 compatible, adds CALL/PARM support like in RPG III and a RPG/400 compatible compiler.