From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bcdac28207102750 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Al Christians Subject: Re: Ada95 speed Date: 1999/06/05 Message-ID: <375989C4.2AE9AD5@easystreet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 486113273 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7jafe1$6ps@lotho.delphi.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: typ22b.nn.bcandid.com 928614776 206.103.35.21 (Sat, 05 Jun 1999 16:32:56 EDT) Organization: Trillium Resources Corporation MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 16:32:56 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-06-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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