From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran)
Subject: Re: Ada95 speed
Date: 1999/05/21
Date: 1999-05-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3744e163.48146692@news.pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3744DAC9.CDB2DE2@gte.net
>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.
Ah, that's what you were referring to.
BTW,I've noticed over a long time that computer scaling is such that
for any given CPU speed, the RAM is of that size that takes
approximately one second to zero out. So your referenced machine
would have used a major fraction of its RAM as video memory.
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1999-05-18 0:00 Ada95 speed Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-17 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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 [this message]
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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 ` 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
1999-06-06 0:00 tmoran
1999-06-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-05 0:00 tmoran
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-06-05 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
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
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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 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-04 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-04 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-04 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
1999-06-04 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
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 ` John B. Matthews, M.D.
1999-06-02 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-02 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-06-02 0:00 ` John B. Matthews, M.D.
1999-06-03 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-05-31 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-05-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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