POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Computers are fast : Re: Computers are fast Server Time
8 Oct 2024 18:31:36 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Computers are fast  
From: andrel
Date: 15 Nov 2009 06:04:41
Message: <4AFFE048.3020208@hotmail.com>
On 15-11-2009 2:49, TC wrote:
> Well, I do not know how old you are, but everything was SLOW back then. Even 
> accessing memory locations using peek and poke did take some time.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20
> 
> Now, all this is almost 30 years past. Maybe I misremember the time it took, 
> but I doubt it.

What I remember is that I was happy that it did it at all. Can't 
remember being frustrated by the speed. More a challenge than a frustration.


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