Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 23:00:54 11/03/00
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On November 04, 2000 at 01:41:24, Christophe Theron wrote: >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 My program ran the same speed on Windows as it did on DOS. bruce
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