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Some early tiny computers were actually calculator chips. So, only floating point. And, implemented in BCD. So slow as f*k. I remember a TI home computer, on a
by JoeAltmaier 2y ago
Some early tiny computers were actually calculator chips. So, only floating point. And, implemented in BCD. So slow as f*k.
I remember a TI home computer, on a counter in a store. I type FOR I = 1 to 10000; NEXT I and RUN
It never finished. I changed it to 1000; still didn't finish. So I changed it FOR I=1 to 10 and PRINT I and it printed 1 and delay and 2 and delay and so on. Took ten seconds to finish.
- classichasclass 2y agoTI BASIC has some unique implementational own goals, however, particularly with respect to system architecture and the middle-level interpreted language TI BASIC is written in. It really makes the 9900 CPU look unfairly bad.