Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 22:41:24 11/03/00
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On November 04, 2000 at 00:47:04, Andrew Dados wrote:
>On November 04, 2000 at 00:00:04, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>>>By your definition I would say that Richard Lang's programs between 1985 and
>>>1992 are the all time greats.
>>>
>>>They are still an incredible challenge to many amateur programs.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Christophe
>>
>>I totally agree. We have benefacted from the experience of earlier acheivements,
>>just as the rest of the world has.
>>
>>To say that today's programs are the best of all-time, is a slap in the face of
>>the older generation of programs. Nothing has been proved. Today's standard are
>>so much higher than they were back then. There is really no comparison.
>
>Most important thing is processor speed / memory sizes programs were
>written/debugged and intended to run. For me all time greatest is definitely
>Genius. Get a 486/33Mhz and try it against any of todays top programs. I put my
>money on Genius...
>
>-Andrew-
Right, but only because today's commercial programs are Windows programs.
Windows slows things too much on a 486-33.
Use the DOS version of Tiger and you'll not win the bet.
But I agree the match will be close to even, which shows how good Lang's
programs were at the time.
Christophe
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