[Info-vax] OT: book from George Dyson.

[Paul Sture]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:21:38 -0700, Rich Jordan wrote:

> On Apr 10, 12:10 pm, brendan welch <w1... at uml.edu> wrote:
>
>> It is not exactly the same thing, but I used the screen of an early 6
>> Mhz IBM PC, as the memory to generate a pretty large list of prime
>> numbers.  For programming convenience, I just let it run overnight,
>> using some easy-to-learn DOS-type instructions.
>>
>> http://www.setileague.org/articles/primes/index.html if you are
>> masochistic.
> 
> Good thing you had the turbocharged 6MHz model, not the base original
> 4.77 MHz or it would have taken weeks...

LOL! Anyone remember the Turbo Button on early 1990s PCs?

You switched Turbo off when a DOS program couldn't cope with the speed of 
the CPU. :-)

-- 
Paul Sture