25 Jan
2011
25 Jan
'11
10:45 p.m.
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 16:01 -0500, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
processing power of a mid-nineties Cray supercomputer... and they run like an 8088 (ok, maybe an 80286), just for all the eye candy: style, not content.
Give me the good old 6502 any day and its mainframe predecessor with a 36 bit word which was 4 Ascii or 6 BCD characters.
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With best regards,
Paul.
England,
EU.