<s>
Office/36	B-Application
was	O
a	O
suite	O
of	O
applications	O
marketed	O
by	O
IBM	O
from	O
1983	O
to	O
2000	O
for	O
the	O
IBM	B-Device
System/36	I-Device
family	O
of	O
midrange	B-Device
computers	I-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
IBM	O
announced	O
its	O
System/36	B-Device
Office	B-Application
Automation	I-Application
(	O
OA	O
)	O
strategy	O
in	O
1985	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Office/36	B-Application
could	O
be	O
purchased	O
in	O
its	O
entirety	O
,	O
or	O
piecemeal	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Components	O
of	O
Office/36	B-Application
include	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
Query/36	O
was	O
not	O
quite	O
the	O
same	O
as	O
SQL	B-Language
,	O
but	O
it	O
had	O
some	O
similarities	O
,	O
especially	O
the	O
ability	O
to	O
very	O
rapidly	O
create	O
a	O
displayed	O
recordset	O
from	O
a	O
disk	O
file	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Note	O
that	O
SQL	B-Language
,	O
also	O
an	O
IBM	O
development	O
,	O
had	O
not	O
been	O
standardized	O
prior	O
to	O
1986	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
DisplayWrite/36	O
,	O
in	O
the	O
same	O
category	O
as	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Word	I-Application
,	O
had	O
online	O
dictionaries	O
and	O
definition	O
capabilities	O
,	O
and	O
spell-check	O
,	O
and	O
unlike	O
the	O
standard	O
S/36	B-Device
products	O
,	O
it	O
would	O
straighten	O
spillover	O
text	O
and	O
scroll	O
in	O
real	O
time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Considerable	O
changes	O
were	O
required	O
to	O
S/36	B-Device
design	O
to	O
support	O
Office/36	B-Application
functionality	O
,	O
not	O
the	O
least	O
of	O
which	O
was	O
the	O
capability	O
to	O
manage	O
new	O
container	O
objects	O
called	O
"	O
folders	O
"	O
and	O
produce	O
multiple	O
extents	O
to	O
them	O
on	O
demand	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Q/36	O
and	O
DW/36	O
typically	O
exceeded	O
the	O
64K	O
program	O
limit	O
of	O
the	O
S/36	B-Device
,	O
both	O
in	O
editing	O
and	O
printing	O
,	O
so	O
using	O
Office	O
products	O
could	O
heavily	O
impact	O
other	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
