TC <do-not-reply@i-do get-enough-spam-already-2498.com> wrote:
> Besides, I am a veteran from those days, too. Drawing my first sine-curve on 
> a CRT took a really long time, 10 minutes or so.

> (No, not the math did take much time: you had to fill the screen with 
> characters from 0-255, remap the dot-matrices of the characters into RAM, 
> then calculate individual points position and set the appropriate bits in 
> the character's 16 bytes dot-matrix. Actually the 3.5kB RAM did not suffice 
> to hold all characters and the BASIC program, so the lower right part of the 
> screen was always blank.)

  That still doesn't explain the 10 minutes. Might explain 10 seconds, if
even that much.

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                                                          - Warp

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