Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Rich Alderson
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 20:26

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hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com writes:

> In the business world, away from academia, COBOL was popular.
> For the newly developed IBM System/3, RPG II was popular.

RPG III.  RPG II was the System/360 implementation.

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