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90's - I was coding a Turbo Pascal assignment in my brand new Pentium 66Mhz. Previous computer was an 286 @12.5Mhz. You could really feel the difference in spee
by eb0la 9y ago
90's - I was coding a Turbo Pascal assignment in my brand new Pentium 66Mhz. Previous computer was an 286 @12.5Mhz. You could really feel the difference in speed compiling... and debugging.
I remember not beign able to spot a bug because the machine was so fast.
Inside a loop I mistyped extra zero in the counter: Instead of 1000 iterations it did 10000.
After those 9000 extra iterations the program output was wrong and I didn't knew why.
In the Pentium you couldn't tell the difference in speed because the output came instantly... but in the i286 the difference in speed was so big you could tell you iterated too much.