Realia Inc, the Chicago company that seems to dog Micro Focus Plc’s footsteps, has now acquired an MS-DOS emulator for IBM’s IMS/DB and DL/I mainframe database environments to enable users to develop Cobol applications destined for IBM mainframes more completely on a personal computer. The product, now called RealDL/I, enables Cobol programs that issue IMS or DL/I calls to run unchanged on any machine running MS-DOS 2.0 up, and can be used with the RealCICS emulator. It taks up 130Kb of memory, plus 10Kb or so for the execution environment, and 512Kb should be sufficient. It costs UKP750 with one copy of the UKP100 operating environment.
