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From: "Clifford J. Nelson" <cnelson9@gte.net>
Subject: Re: Ada95 speed
Date: 1999/06/04
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Robert Dewar wrote:

> In article <3753DA33.F2E088A0@gte.net>,
>   cnelson9@gte.net wrote:
>
> > It took a few micro seconds to display the
> > result of the computations.
>
> No, that's obviously wrong, presumably this is a misprint
> for milliseconds (remember that the scan speed of typical
> displays of the period was 30-60Hz)
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It it right. It took a few micro seconds while the video mapped memory
pointer was updated. Am I the only one who remembers this stuff?

   Cliff Nelson