Английская Википедия:Business Controls Corporation
Business Controls Corporation is a privately held computer company[1] that developed an application-program-generator and also a series of accounting software packages. These packages were widely enough used for various business magazines to have back-of-the-book ads for companies seeking accountants with experience in one or more of them.[2]
Computer magazines[3] ran coverage for their SB-5 application-program-generator as from time to time new versions were released, each with new or improved features.[4][5]
Early days
The company's initial offerings were packages for the DEC PDP-8, although Business Controls Corporation also wrote custom-written programs for customers.
Large customers with mainframes who also used smaller systems for departmental use and distributed processing also used BCC's services.[6][7]
SB-5
The addition of an application-program-generator named SB-5[8] that, from specifications, could generate COBOL code was a major step forward.[9] Although this began with supporting the DEC PDP-11,[10] they subsequently began to support COBOL on DEC's DECsystem-10 & DECSYSTEM-20.[11] VAX support came later.[12]
The specifications also permitted COBOL inserts and overrides: SB-5 could build an application that was all COBOL,[13] yet only code the portions that varied from BCC's "vanilla" accounting packages.[9]
Similar offerings
A similar idea was done for the IBM mainframe world in the form of a series of application-program-generators from Dylakor Corporation. They were named DYL-250, DYL-260, DYL-270 & DYL-280. Dylakor was acquired by Computer Associates.[14]
The specific syntax was different, but it had wider use, and - a mark of success and recognition in the industry[15] - syntax-compatible implementations were released by a competitor.[16][17]
Still another alternative was Peat Marwick Mitchell's PMM2170 application-program-generator package.[18] Like the others, it supported COBOL inserts and overrides.
Extended integration
Business Controls Corporation subsequently extended SB-5's feature set to provide support for System 1022, a product for the DEC-10 & DEC-20;[19] 1022's vendor also had a VAX/VMS (later OpenVMS) product, System 1032.
References
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- ↑ The dBase syntax was implemented by many competing companies, including Computer Associates
- ↑ "We have a version of Z-Writer (called ZWDYL) that uses the same syntax as DYL-280 (shown below). That means you can now replace DYL280 ..." Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ "z/Writer's ZWDYL is an Alternative to CA DYL-260 for your mainframe." Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ PMM trademarked "SYSTEM 2170" Шаблон:Cite web, but the software was distributed as PMM 2170.
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