Re:Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer (2016)
by dajt on Friday December 15, 2023 @03:56AM
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In the early 90s we ported our COBOL software from the Wang VS to various typs of UNIX by purchasing and extending a Wang VS runtime emulator.
Then I wrote a terminal emulator for Windows 3.1 that would parse the forms sent down by the runtime and display them as something that looked like a Windows app. This wasn't too difficult because mini & mainframe systems present data entry pages a whole screen at a time, like a windows form.
Then I wrote a terminal emulator for Windows 3.1 that would parse the forms sent down by the runtime and display them as something that looked like a Windows app. This wasn't too difficult because mini & mainframe systems present data entry pages a whole screen at a time, like a windows form.