[GNC] Closing out QB Pro?!

[Michael or Penny Novack]

> Is it better on hardware or a VM, does anyone build it on a docker container
> with its own database?
>
> Thank you everyone,
>
> Best,
> John

"is it better on hardware?" ---- LOL, it has been a LONG time since 
anybody has been running programs "on hardware". Quite likely before you 
were born. You are talking about something like an IBM 650 (you put the 
instructions spaced out on the drum -- where you put them affected the 
speed at which programs would run*)  That would be the 1950's. By the 
mid 1960's the IBM 360 was out and running under MFT so multitasking << 
in other words, running under an operating system >>

I suspect you meant (by "hardware") just under the operating system, but 
gee, already a couple levels up from hardware. When you turn on your 
computer, it starts coming up in its BIOS (basic input output system) 
because without that software running it couldn't even bring in the OS 
you intend to use.

Michael D Novack

* If spaced right, while the previous instruction executed, the drum had 
rotated, so fastest if the next instruction was about to be at the read 
head. Maybe 1961 I an a high school friend made a tiny 4 bit machine ALL 
SOLID STATE. We had to hand load a "program" into the core so I guess 
you'd call that
hardware"