POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Computers are fast : Re: Computers are fast Server Time
5 Sep 2024 03:25:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Computers are fast  
From: Darren New
Date: 14 Nov 2009 21:16:21
Message: <4aff6475$1@news.povray.org>
TC 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.

He too. Altho I never did much graphics on the TRS-80, I do remember letting 
Mandelbrots run overnight on my Amiga. (Or was that still the Atari at that 
point? I don't even remember.)  Whatever, it was pretty amazing at the time. :-)

> Things did speed up a bit since those days. ;-)

And that is indeed the point of the article.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".


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