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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.

Licence and availability

Discontinued commercial software

Publisher

California Software Products Inc.

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 ==History==
-In the early 90's 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.
+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.