Re: Apple and the Holy War

[bctimes@hotmail.com (Forrest)]

Somewhere, pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:

>I first started this project on Apple DOS
>+ Applesoft, but never finished it there: the first running verison
>ran on CP/M.  Since htere never was any Applesoft verison of this
>probram, I can only guess the run time under Applesoft:
[...]
>After this, please try to convince me that the Apple II+ is more
>powerful than a PC....  <g>

I =also= didn't run your benchmark, in fact I refrained from
running it a number of times, and guessed much better times than you.
In fact I'm not running it right now, on the Apple II Plus that's
sitting in the closet unplugged, and I imagine it's just blazing away.

For the record, Applesoft's FP package was notoriously slow (being something 
of a rush-job unoptimized port of 8080 code, I'm told).  Code your benchmarks 
in assembler as Woz intended.