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Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS?

From "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS?
Date 2016-02-17 14:05 +1100
Message-ID <dii6cbF5sitU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <o914pc-pd3.ln1@sambook.reistad.name> <n9nobn$kl0$1@dont-email.me> <1217079919.477102404.056131.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <n9q7a4$b4c$3@dont-email.me> <7258c4ec-8a8a-47b8-866f-36859b3c9fd1@googlegroups.com>

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<hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote in message 
news:7258c4ec-8a8a-47b8-866f-36859b3c9fd1@googlegroups.com...
> On Sunday, February 14, 2016 at 10:45:56 AM UTC-5, D_J_E wrote:
>
>> Of course.
>> Lots of fun on a 1.4K 1401.
>> But software should be written to current hardware levels.
>
> I've heard lots of old-timers say all the computing power they ever
> needed was provided by a full scale 1401 system (16k, disk).  In
> hindsight, maybe they were right.

No.

> They did manage to run a whole hospital out of that.

They couldn't do anything like what a decent modern hospital
system can do with all the records online and easily available
and all the stuff like xrays and cat scans etc easily available either.

> The 1401 disk system did support on-line processing, in  a way.
> Programs could include provision to accept an interrupt from the
> console typewriter, and bring in another program to service the
> inquiry.

And that can't provide anything like what a decent modern hospital system 
can do. 

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64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-02-13 12:22 +0000
  Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-02-13 07:29 -0600
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              Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-02-14 13:09 -0600
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