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From: Al Christians <achrist@easystreet.com>
Subject: Re: Ada95 speed
Date: 1999/06/05
Date: 1999-06-05T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <375989C4.2AE9AD5@easystreet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7jafe1$6ps@lotho.delphi.com

tmoran@bix.com wrote:
> 
> > I knew physicists in 1971 who wrote programs in compiled basic for
> > micro computers.
>   What compiled BASIC was that, and what microcomputers (in 1971)?


IBM introduced the System 3, Model 6 in the spring of 1971.  It ran
Basic -- compiled? I don't recall.  It wasn't exactly PC size; it was
about the size of a desk, with up to 64kb of virtual memory, 16k of real
memory.

IBM's desktop machine (microcomputer(?)), the 5100, (which ran APL) 
came along about 2 or 3 years later.

HP ran a time sharing service about the same time that included Basic
on HP-3000's.

Al




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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-06-05  0:00 Ada95 speed tmoran
1999-06-05  0:00 ` Al Christians [this message]
1999-06-05  0:00   ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
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1999-06-07  0:00 Robert I. Eachus
1999-06-07  0:00 ` tmoran
1999-06-06  0:00 tmoran
1999-06-06  0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-06-06  0:00   ` tmoran
1999-06-07  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-06  0:00       ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-06-07  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-06  0:00       ` Brian Rogoff
1999-06-06  0:00 tmoran
1999-06-06  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-05  0:00 tmoran
1999-06-05  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-05  0:00   ` Ehud Lamm
1999-06-05  0:00     ` William Starner
1999-06-05  0:00       ` Ehud Lamm
1999-06-05  0:00     ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-06  0:00     ` David Botton
1999-06-06  0:00       ` Ehud Lamm
1999-06-07  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-07  0:00           ` Ehud Lamm
     [not found] <374182F2.B10AD449@Maths.UniNe.CH>
1999-05-18  0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-05-18  0:00   ` Gautier
1999-05-19  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-20  0:00       ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-20  0:00         ` Tucker Taft
1999-05-20  0:00           ` Tom Moran
1999-05-20  0:00             ` Tom Moran
1999-05-21  0:00               ` Tom Moran
1999-05-31  0:00         ` James E. Hopper
1999-06-01  0:00           ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-01  0:00             ` James E. Hopper
1999-06-02  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-04  0:00               ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-05  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-01  0:00           ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-01  0:00             ` James E. Hopper
1999-06-02  0:00               ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-04  0:00                 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-02  0:00             ` James E. Hopper
1999-06-02  0:00               ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-02  0:00                 ` James E. Hopper
1999-06-02  0:00                   ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-02  0:00                     ` John B. Matthews, M.D.
1999-06-02  0:00                       ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-02  0:00                     ` Gautier
1999-06-02  0:00                       ` John B. Matthews, M.D.
1999-06-02  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-04  0:00               ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-04  0:00                 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-06-04  0:00                 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
1999-06-03  0:00           ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-05-31  0:00       ` Gautier
1999-05-19  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-18  0:00 Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-17  0:00 ` David Starner
1999-05-18  0:00   ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-18  0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-05-18  0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-18  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-05-18  0:00   ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-20  0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-05-21  0:00   ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-21  0:00     ` Tom Moran
1999-05-21  0:00       ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-21  0:00         ` Tom Moran
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