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#cobol #mainframe programming is insane, ha. Less really because of the language, and more because of the wild environment. This is old, yeah, but it seems very similar to modern ways. #retrocomputing
Apr 7 at 5:53amWeb
Show threadLyrial2d ago
@s0ftwave1662 This would make more sense to me without the GUI, I think. COBOL is rough by modern standards, but something about having it in a window manager breaks my brain.
Show threadArcane Roops2d ago
@s0ftwave1662 I love the way the whole setup was very efficient on space and bandwidth. You could make many updates on screen, or just one, but however many there were, they were only transmitted to the mainframe (causing an interrupt) in one batch when you hit <Enter> or a PFkey. And they had edit session recovery long before I saw anything similar on PC editors :-)
Show threadGary 2d ago
@s0ftwave1662 oh boy, that brings back memories of doing PL/1 coding in the mid 90s on a big CICS MVS system