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Subject: Re: tiny COBOL,  Article on new mainframe use
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On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 21:55:46 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:

>>I still have a copy of the Nevada COBOL compiler for the Commodore 64.
> 
> The C64 was a supercomputer compared to a 1401.

I don’t think it was possible to fit a COBOL compiler into a 64K address 
space -- not without heavy overlaying. The DEC one for the PDP-11 was a 
280kiB executable. It was so resource-heavy, it was kept chained up in its 
own special batch queue, so nobody could run more than one instance at 
once.