At 11:07 PM 3/1/04 -0500, Chandra wrote:
>Radio Shack used sell Ryan-McFarland BASIC/COBOL/Fortran? compilers for
>the TRS-80 Model II/12/16. Outside of Radio Shack, they may have been a
>small player in the CP/M compiler space. COBOL was their most
>successful product.
I've seen RM Cobol for the PC a number of times. In fact, I recently
found a complete set of docs, orginal box, notes, etc but missing the
disks. IBM's "Professional Fortran" for the PC was also written by RM.
But this is the first time I've heard of RM BASIC.
>
> Ryan-McFard still exists (kind of) as Liant Corp.
>
>http://www.liant.com/
>
>A google search turns up some interesting history:
>
>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Ryan+McFarlan
>d+compilers
Thanks for the URLs.
Joe
>
>
>-Chandra
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org
>[mailto:cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Joe R.
>Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 10:59 PM
>To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
>Subject: ryan-McFarland BASIC?
>
> Today I got two boxs of old Intel computer manuals that a friend of
>mine
>dug up in Vermont. In one of the manuals are some brochures for
>Ryan-McFarland BASIC. I've never heard of RM BASIC for any system
>before.
>Anybody know anything about it?
>
> Joe
>
>
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