RDOS Extended Basic… I give up

I spent quite a while on this…this is the Readers Digest version. Software I started with the latest version 5.90… 071-000048-15__E_RDOS_Extended_BASIC_rev_5.90__3379__1975-1989.9trk This error (DIRECTORY DEPTH EXCEEDED: BASIC.DR) baffeled me for a while… When that didn’t work, I tried version 5.80… 061-600075-00__DG-RDOS_Extended_BASIC_rev_5.80__30569__1985-1986.9trk However I finally realized DG-RDOS is not the same as RDOS (which runs on …

Followup email about BLIS/COBOL

I wrote “Everyone’s always surprised when I tell them about an OS written in COBOL”. Bruce Ray responded “Technically, the operating system and COBOL compiler/interpreter were written in Nova assembler, not written in COBOL. It ran programs written in IPI’s COBOL language – okay, okay, a technical quibble?”. So if he’s right Wikipedia should be …