29 May
1998
29 May
'98
8:49 a.m.
At 09:42 AM 5/29/98 -0800, Tim Shoppa wrote:
Fast FPGA's and clever logic lets modern folks do 600 x 800 (or larger)
at faster than 60Hz. Still, I'd prefer a board full of TTL :-).
The Amiga's graphics blitter chip was smart enough to perform
the operations of Life. According to some messages I found,
on 7 Mhz 68000 machines, it would do 1.3 million cells/second.
Someone else reported 19.8 generations/second for a 318 x 188 grid.
- John
Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm>