Micro Focus COBOL: Difference between revisions

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The 32-bit COBOL implementation was introduced by [[Micro Focus]] in 1992 that supported OS/2, Windows 3.x and DOS and was later ported to Windows NT. There were also versions of the toolkit available for sundry Unices but they were typically sold separately and not bundled together like the Win-OS/2-DOS version was. Prior to the introduction of this product the Micro Focus company had supplied a 16 bit COBOL compiler to Microsoft that they used in the Microsoft Cobol product.

Versions

CP/M

1980: CIS COBOL

DOS

1983: Level II COBOL, Personal COBOL - for DOS 1.1
1986: VS COBOL Workbench V 1.3 - for PC XT
1987: VS COBOL Workbench V 2.0
VS COBOL 286 - for PC AT

OS/2 16-bit

OS/2 32-bit

Jan 1996: Object COBOL 4.0 (32-bit) for OS/2

Windows 95

Dec 1995: Visual Object COBOL 1.0

UNIX

Nov 1996: Object COBOL Developer Suite v4.1 for UNIX

Publications

David Dill: The COBOL Presentation Manager Programming Guide: For OS/2 Versions 1.3 and 2.0 – VNR 1992, ISBN 0-442-01293-4
Robert B. Chapman: OS/2 Presentation Manager Programming for COBOL Programmers (Revised edition) – Wiley 1993, ISBN 0-471-56140-1

Links

Building Applications Using Micro Focus COBOL (2002)

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-A 32 bit implementation of [[COBOL]] introduced in 1992 that supported OS/2, Windows 3.x and DOS and was later ported to 32 bit Windows, there were also versions of the toolkit available for sundry [[Unices]] but they were typically sold separately and not bundled together like the Win-OS/2-DOS version was. Prior to the introduction of this product the Micro Focus company had supplied a 16 bit COBOL compiler to [[Microsoft]] that they used in the [[Microsoft Cobol]] product.
+The 32-bit [[COBOL]] implementation was introduced by [[[[Micro Focus]]]] in 1992 that supported OS/2, Windows 3.x and DOS and was later ported to Windows NT. There were also versions of the toolkit available for sundry [[Unices]] but they were typically sold separately and not bundled together like the Win-OS/2-DOS version was. Prior to the introduction of this product the Micro Focus company had supplied a 16 bit COBOL compiler to [[Microsoft]] that they used in the [[Microsoft Cobol]] product.
 ==Versions==
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 * 1987: VS COBOL Workbench V 2.0
 * VS COBOL 286 - for PC AT
-;OS/2
+;OS/2 16-bit
-* 1988: COBOL/2 Version 1.0, COBOL/2 Software Development Kit
+* [[Micro Focus COBOL/2]]
-* 1988: COBOL/2 Version 1.1
+* [[Micro Focus COBOL Workbench]]
-* 1990: COBOL/2 Version 2.4, COBOL/2 Toolset Version 2.4
-* 1991: COBOL/2 Version 2.5, COBOL/2 Toolset Version 2.5
-* 1994: COBOL/2 Version 3.2
 ;OS/2 32-bit
 * Jan 1996: Object COBOL 4.0 (32-bit) for OS/2
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 ;UNIX
 * Nov 1996: Object COBOL Developer Suite v4.1 for UNIX
-[[IBM COBOL/2]] and Microsoft COBOL Optimizing Compiler Version 3.0 (introduced in August 1988) are based on Micro Focus COBOL/2.
-==Author==
-* [[Micro Focus]]
 ==Publications==