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Re: Apple II C Compilers in 1985 and speed of IIs?

Subject: Re: Apple II C Compilers in 1985 and speed of IIs?
From: Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:39:18 +0100
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On 03/06/2011 02:29 AM, datajerk wrote:
> I know of Aztec C, were there any others in 1985?

No idea, sorry. Remember C wasn't the ubiquitous language it is today at
that time. Pascal was far more common in the area of ALGOL-derived
languages.

> In 1985 besides the ///, where there any Apple II capable of running
> faster than 1MHz?  If so, how fast?

Not natively until 1986, but look here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_accelerators

Seems like the first accelerators appeared in 1982 or so, even before
the //e hit the market. But I guess they were quite rare in the beginning.

-- 
Linards Ticmanis

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