Re: A86: Reader
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Re: A86: Reader
At 04:33 PM 9/16/97 -0400, Chris wrote:
>Hmm.. supposedly, the TI86 runs BASIC and a few other things a little
>slower than the 85 because it has four RAM pages and the Z80 can only
>work with it in 32k chunks so it has to switch.. but in some ways.. I
>can't imagine how it could slow it as much as it does. EX: 86 takes
>about 2 min. longer to do Sierpinski triangle BASIC program. Hmm...
>You know.. most people at my school still use BASIC games so I guess the
>purposeful slowdown is possible.. Well... we don't have ROM dumps for
>nothing. (-:
>
I said why basic is slow, not why 86 basic is slower than 85 basic.
Generally though, the suggestion is, dont use basic =P
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