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From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran)
Subject: Re: Ada95 speed
Date: 1999/05/21
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>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.