On 03/03/2012 11:01, Warp wrote:
> Orchid Win7 v1<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> That's pretty sick, right there. I'm ancient enough to remember a time
>> when drawing the Mandelbrot set at 320x240 used to take /several
>> minutes/. And now you can apparently do this in realtime using an
>> unoptimised scripting language...
>
>    That's a quite long time ago. Even in the era of 486's you could
> draw a 320x240 Mandelbrot or Julia set in almost real-time. (Of course
> not with any scripting language.)

80486? Some of us remember the Z80 and the 6502. ;-)

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