> 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. ;-)

Still have my Apple ][+ in working condition. Just have to plug it in 
and hook it to a TV set. 6502 running at 1.024 MHz with a whooping 48K 
of RAM and 16K of ROM.

Alain

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