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Ryan-McFarland

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Ryan-McFarland Corporation was founded in 1970 by Don Ryan and David McFarland.

The COBOL-74 compiler was licensed to:

  • NCR IMOS COBOL (1975)
  • Texas Instruments (1976)
  • Zilog (1977)
  • Tandy Corp./Radio Shack RSCOBOL (1978) - TRS-80 Model I, Model III
  • Onyx Systems, Inc. (1979)

RM/COBOL was released in 1979.

In 1987 the company was acquired by Austec. In 1989 it became a division of Liant Software Corporation.

Products

  • RM/BASIC
  • RM/COBOL-74
  • RM/COBOL - compiler and runtime system
  • RM/CodeBench - Windows-based development environment
  • RM/Companion - report writer
  • RM/COS (Commercial Operating System)
  • RM/FORTE
  • RM/FORTRAN - also marketed by IBM as IBM Professional FORTRAN and IBM FORTRAN/2
  • RM/Grafs - business graphics system
  • RM/InfoExpress - file transfer
  • RM/MASTER
  • RM/Panels - interface builder
  • RM/PlusDB - transparent data access
  • RM/Screens
  • VanGui for RM/COBOL