Re: jippie, my apple2+ is still working :-))

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <3A21E2A5.7CB949A5@blakespot.com>,
Blake Patterson  <blake@blakespot.com> wrote:
 
> Paul Schlyter wrote:
> 
>>In article <2Z9U5.18308$L26.5356156@typhoon.southeast.rr.com>,
>>**** **** <***@***.com> wrote:
>>>Michael wrote in message <3a206843.14231488@news.uni-muenster.de>...
>>>
>>>>i pickt up my old apple][+ in the basement after about 15 years and it
>>>>is still running, and almost all disks are working :-))))
>>>>
>>>>I love this machine :-))) even if it takes 45 sec !!!! for a "for i=1
>>>>to 3000:next" loop :-)))
>>>
>>>
>>>The scary thing is that there have been situations where even my pentium
>>>would take that long for that loop. A misbehaving thread in the background
>>>gobbling cpu cycles like they were potato chips, and even the new stuff
>>>isn't so fast anymore.
>> 
>> On my Apple II+ a "for i=1 to 3000:next i" only takes some 3-4 seconds.....
> 
> I recon he's printing out each iteration to the screen...
 
If so, there must be a PRINT statement within the loop, and the
"for i=1 to 3000:next i" he posted didn't have such a print statement.
 
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