To: zeugma
Psshhh, youngster, I was doin stuff like that on my Apple II+. Hand coded assembly language, I swear it felt as fast as anything operating today.
85 posted on
08/17/2016 11:32:25 AM PDT by
Paradox
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To: Paradox
92 posted on
08/17/2016 11:41:33 AM PDT by
Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: Paradox
Psshhh, youngster, I was doin stuff like that on my Apple II+. Hand coded assembly language, I swear it felt as fast as anything operating today. It was. 95% of a modern computer's power is wasted on flashy graphics. (yeah, I picked that number out of the air) No matter how fast your computer is, it never really seems to get any faster because the GUIs eat every available cycle. I'd love to run fractint on modern bare hardware. Some day I'm going to build a spare PC just to run Fractint on freeDOS.
103 posted on
08/17/2016 11:56:01 AM PDT by
zeugma
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