From: tmoran@bix.com
Subject: Re: Ada95 speed
Date: 1999/06/06
Date: 1999-06-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7jd72e$fja@lotho.delphi.com> (raw)
> 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.
>The 5100 was an 8-bit microcomputer which came out in 1975. You could get
>a model which ran BASIC or ALP (selectable with a rocker switch).
>It ran Syatem 370 microcode, and cost about $25,000.
I'm inclined to think 'microcomputer' meant 'built around a
single chip CPU', eg, like the 8080 et al. If the CPU was a board,
I'd call it a minicomputer. Granted, the 5100 was small enough
to easily carry, but a lot happened between 1971 and 1975. By
'75, as I recall, Wang et al were installing minicomputers running
Basic interpreters in lots of small businesses.
> HP ran a time sharing service about the same time that included Basic
> on HP-3000's.
I recall using Basic over a teletype in the early '60s. I don't
think it was compiled, however. Was Basic on the HP-3000 compiled?
If not, what *compiled* Basic was in use by physicists (ie, not just
computer research use) in *1971*?
next reply other threads:[~1999-06-06 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-06-06 0:00 tmoran [this message]
1999-06-06 0:00 ` Ada95 speed 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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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 ` 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
1999-06-05 0:00 tmoran
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-06-05 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
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 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
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
[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 ` 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 ` Gautier
1999-06-02 0:00 ` John B. Matthews, M.D.
1999-06-02 0:00 ` John B. Matthews, M.D.
1999-06-02 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
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
1999-06-01 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
1999-06-03 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-05-31 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-05-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox