A proprietary high level Implementation language for software development was planned and Q-language, an ALGOL60 derived language, was designed, but actually never implemented.
Assignments of Software tasks to the development teams of Bull and Medium System Department in Phoenix were made: Bull abandoned for some years any work on COBOL, while some competence in basic operating system was attributed to what was then a very inexperienced Bull team.
The results of the preliminary software studies were reviewed by an ACT team, under the responsibility of Mike BAILEY. That report was essentially confirming the initial design decisions about the use of segmentation, condemning demand paging in the sake of performances, recommending however paging as a tool for memory chunks allocation. It was insisting on the use of a powerful Macro- generator, both as a software methodology tool and as a job control language extension. It also let Management unwary about subsettability of the interior decor, assuming that segmentation mechanism could be specific to a hardware model, without impacting the software unicity. It might have been that ACT was hunting from contracts in several GE divisions!