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Re: Cobol Compiler?

In article <55tn2m$ecq@urvile.msus.edu>,
Bill Scheffler <schefflr@news.msus.edu> wrote:
>	Does anyone know where I could find a Cobol compiler for the Apple
>II?  Preferably free?  Thanks.

   Larry Virden's catalog of Apple II languages and such lists a
total of one, and the requirements are kinda steep:

1) It was from Microsoft
2) It ran under CP/M [requiring a Z80 card]

   Given that COBOL was almost exclusively relegated to the mainframe
business realm, this apparent lack of compilers isn't too surprising.

   [There's also the fact that not so many people admit to being
COBOL programmers nowadays :]

Nathan Mates
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