Hi Cees, you <cdegroot at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/26/05, Klaus D. Witzel <klaus.witzel at cobss.com> wrote:
>> But some Deutsche actually did it (if my EEPROM cells are not defunct),
>
> And don't forget the wonderful Betriebssystem 2000, a fully German OS.
> Only heard of it, but I figure that since the thing was German
> top-to-bottom and a heavy expression of NIH syndrome at Siemens
> (wasn't it?), it sported its own programming languages as well :)

Yup, almost forgot that (perhaps page-in from my memory rusted ;). Visited  
www.kba.de at around 1974 (one of the biggest Siemens BS/1000 users at  
that time), not invented here, indeed.

/Klaus