Editing IBM System/34 (section)

==Successor systems==

The [[IBM System/38]] was intended to be the successor of the System/34 and the earlier System/3x systems. However, due to the delays in the development of the System/38 and the high cost of the hardware once complete, IBM developed the simpler and cheaper [[System/36]] platform which was more widely adopted than the System/38.<ref name="inside-as400">{{cite book|title=Inside the AS/400, Second Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5DoPAAAACAAJ|isbn=978-1882419661|author=Frank G. Soltis|year=1997|publisher=Duke Press}}</ref> The System/36 was an evolution of the System/34 design, but the two machines were not object-code compatible. Instead, the System/36 offered source code compatibility, allowing System/34 applications to be recompiled on a System/36 with little to no changes. Some System/34 hardware was incompatible with the System/36.

A third-party product from ''California Software Products, Inc.'' named BABY/34 allowed System/34 applications to be ported to [[IBM PC compatible]] hardware running [[MS-DOS]].<ref>{{cite magazine
|magazine=[[Computerworld]]
|date=March 18, 1985
|page=50
|url=https://archive.org/details/computerworld1911unse/page/50/mode/1up
|title=BABY/34™ Software enables you to run IBM System/34 RPG II programs on your PCs, XTs and ATs
}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine
|magazine=[[InfoWorld]]
|date=July 21, 1986
|page=47
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yi8EAAAAMBAJ
|title=Product Briefs}}</ref>