GrowthPower is indeed written in BASIC/3000.  It uses a lot of SPL procedures.
 At least that's the way it was earlier this decade, circa 1991.

Compiled BASIC/3000 is very fast.

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Stan Sieler [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Tuesday, 04 January, 2000 4:37 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: Y2K ALERT for Growthpower Users

Re:

> I received this GrowthPower alert today from my application manager.  I'm not
...
> ATTENTION ALL GROWTHPOWER USERS
> It has come to our attention that you will need to get a patch for your
> HP3000 operating system.  You need to get the patch BSIJXA4A from Hewlett
> Packard.  There are 2 ways for you to get this:

Hmm...the patch in question was developed in 1996.

And...it's for BASIC.

So, does GrowthPower use BASIC?!?!  why?  Does GrowthPower use a lot of CPU
time?
Just wondering...I know nothing about GrowthPower.


BTW, here's how to see if you need the patch:

   :basic
   10 print dat$(1,27)
   RUN
   SUN, JAN  4, 19:4,  2:25 PM
                ^^^^ should be 2000

Here's a run on a good version of BASIC:

   :basic
   10 print dat$(1,27)
   RUN
   TUE, JAN  4, 2000,  2:25 PM

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