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From: "Clifford J. Nelson" <cnelson9@gte.net>
Subject: Re: Ada95 speed
Date: 1999/05/21
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Tom Moran wrote:

> > six seconds in C on a MacIIfx
>
> >four hundred dollar eight bit
> >computers fifteen years ago
>   I don't think a MacIIfx cost $400 new and it certainly wasn't an 8
> bit computer.  If you really want price/performance, perhaps you
> should get a machine a few years old for nearly zero price.  ;)

It would have taken less than one third of a second on an eight bit four
hundred dollar computer with memory mapped video five years before the
MacIIfx existed to plot the pixels after the color numbers were
computed.

   Cliff Nelson