MauryMarkowitz2

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   by MauryMarkowitz2 1y ago

   Actually, this page is a perfect example of why I copied all these programs by hand: 101 BASIC Computer Games != BASIC Computer Games The former is in various DEC dialects of BASIC which varied greatly even among each other, let alone with
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   by MauryMarkowitz2 1y ago

   > DEC could have ruled the world No way. DEC's entire corporate structure was based on a particular business model that demanded their products sell for tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands per sale. They tried many times to b
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   by MauryMarkowitz2 1y ago

   I've been slowly documenting these differences with a series of Wiki articles. Generally though, there's three major "families": * The original Dartmouth BASIC turned into a wide variety of mainframe versions. These are
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   by MauryMarkowitz2 4y ago

   > The first benchmarks indicated the plain Archimedes had higher FP throughput than a 16MHz 386 with a 387. After some poking about, it is clear this statement is not true for any definition of "first" or "benchmark"