7 May
2025
7 May
'25
8:32 a.m.
>> OS/360 TSO BASIC, pgm-nr 5734-RC2 round 1971
Interesting - then I wonder why in 1974 they bothered to build a S/3
emulator into the IBM 5100. They had already done the S/360 emulator and
gotten APL working, so why not use this OS/360 version of BASIC?
(well, OS/360 is the OS -- maybe there were more hooks and baggage in
getting that working; i.e. they didn't want to pull over the entire OS/360
environment)
Or maybe there were more features they liked about the S/3 version? Did
the TSO BASIC have floating point, MAT, PRINT USING, etc?
On Wed, May 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM Henk Stegeman via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hi Steve,
...does that imply there was never a variation of BASIC written for the
IBM 360/370?
There is a VS BASIC, pgm-nr 5748-XX1, avail round 1976
OS/360 TSO BASIC, pgm-nr 5734-RC2 round 1971
A general BASIC language reference manual GC28-6837 pub date June 1970.
What are your plans/project with this IBM BASIC ?
Have you seen
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/system3/basic/5703-XM1_BASIC_V1.5/ ?
Regards
Henk