Stephen <mcavoys_at@aoldotcom> wrote:
> On 03/03/2012 2:27 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:> >>> Thanks. /Now/ I feel old... >_<> >>> >> My first computer was home made using a GPO uniselector and a rotary> >> dial. It could add and display the result in binary.> >> The first one that I worked on was a Honeywell 416> >>> >> Feeling any younger now? ;-)> >> > My dad's heating system is made by Honeywell. Who knew they make> > anything that uses electricity though?>> You said that the last time I told you that I worked for Honeywell> Computers. Maybe you are getting old and decrepit. :-P
Haha. It's just a malfunctioning loophole in his programing.
Btw, congrats on the hobbyist pioneer pc. :)
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...
Afaik, today javascript is jit-compiled in most browsers.
From: Darren New
Subject: Re: fractals on HTML5 canvas
Date: 3 Mar 2012 15:48:57
Message: <4f5283b9@news.povray.org>
On 3/3/2012 3:01, Warp wrote:
> That's a quite long time ago.
One of my first Atari 400 (0.7MHz 6502) programs. In BASIC. I used to
*dream* of it finishing in only several minutes. ;-)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
People tell me I am the counter-example.
From: Alain
Subject: Re: fractals on HTML5 canvas
Date: 3 Mar 2012 22:30:03
Message: <4f52e1bb$1@news.povray.org>
> 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
From: Orchid Win7 v1
Subject: Re: fractals on HTML5 canvas
Date: 4 Mar 2012 12:02:21
Message: <4f53a01d$1@news.povray.org>
>> 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.
I still have an Amiga 1200 in working condition. Mainly because OctaMED
is the only piece of software on Earth that I can find which can
actually capture MIDI SysEx messages and save them to disk...