Popular System/36 Applications
- The most popular program was Programmer/Operator Productivity Aid (POP) It cost $1,000. It was, however, widely pirated. It was included with the Advanced 36.
- MAPICS, the Manufacturing and Production Information Control System, was a popular S/36 application.
- IMAS, a simple accounting package
- BPCS, a more advanced accounting system
- IBM Office/36 collection of programs (DisplayWrite/36, IDDU, Query, and so forth) were popular in the late 1980s and were later bundled with the Advanced/36.
- A popular database tool available from a third party was FEU (File Edit Utility.)
- There was a games library called FUNLIB that contained games like Star Trek, Football, Hangman, Coffee, Grand Prix, and a Biorhythm program. An associated PICTURES library let you print ASCII art of Star Trek's Mr. Spock, John Dean, and Christmas calendars.
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