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From: Arthur Krewat <krewat@kilonet.net>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Space Travel, was New: The Earliest UNIX Code
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 16:24:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4b8b55d6-d4a2-1743-898d-ef61a44de088@kilonet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEdTPBf-gbwypJtUzwgCeTYM6YRwbnsJUoUEYDG7PK3fPCLvYQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/19/2019 3:50 PM, Henry Bent wrote:
> The idea is to squeeze as much apparent visual performance out of a 
> system as possible, so an example might be scrolling characters across 
> the screen while a wireframe cube rotates in the background, all on a 
> Commodore VIC-20 with 4K of RAM.
You ain't lived until you try to take Impossible Mission from the 
Commodore 64, and convert it to an Atari 7800 using that Maria 
steaming-pile-of-doodoo. Talk about optimizing ;)

art k.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-10-19 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-19 14:40 Doug McIlroy
2019-10-19 18:32 ` Abhinav Rajagopalan
2019-10-19 18:44   ` Abhinav Rajagopalan
2019-10-19 19:19   ` Clem Cole
2019-10-19 19:50     ` Henry Bent
2019-10-19 19:55       ` [TUHS] Space Travel related question Thomas Paulsen
2019-10-19 20:19         ` Warner Losh
2019-10-19 20:24       ` Arthur Krewat [this message]
2019-10-19 20:12   ` [TUHS] How to do differential/integral on a PDP-7, was: Space Travel Michael Kjörling
2019-10-19 20:40     ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-19 21:15       ` Michael Kjörling
2019-10-21  5:14       ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-21  5:23         ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-10-21 13:59           ` John P. Linderman
     [not found]             ` <68553366-4E6F-4E17-8903-282C67186D16@humeweb.com>
2019-10-26  2:24               ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-26  2:09           ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-21  4:55     ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-21 19:21       ` Paul Winalski
2019-10-21 19:38         ` Kurt H Maier
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-10-19 13:13 [TUHS] Space Travel, was New: The Earliest UNIX Code Doug McIlroy
2019-10-18 11:52 Doug McIlroy
2019-10-18 18:36 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-10-18 20:19   ` SPC
2019-10-18 22:04     ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2019-10-18 23:20       ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-19  0:57         ` G. Branden Robinson
2019-10-19  1:11           ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-29  2:18       ` Lawrence Stewart
2019-10-26 15:10 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-10-17 19:21 [TUHS] New: The Earliest UNIX Code - From the Collection of the Software History Center, Computer History Museum Lyle Bickley
2019-10-17 20:44 ` [TUHS] Space Travel, was New: The Earliest UNIX Code Warren Toomey
2019-10-17 22:39   ` Warner Losh
2019-10-17 22:51     ` Warren Toomey
2019-10-18  5:59       ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-10-18  9:30         ` SPC
2019-10-18 17:36         ` Nemo
2019-10-18  3:01   ` Warren Toomey
2019-10-18  5:07   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-10-18  5:10     ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-10-18 13:37       ` Warner Losh

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