31 Jul
2003
31 Jul
'03
1:37 p.m.
Hans Franke wrote:
Interesting. We are told that the PET BASIC is in fact a version of
microsoft BASIC which was an outright sale with no royalties. Can anyone
confirm/deny that?
We have a number of working BASIC machines of that era and plan on doing
a grand performance comparison one of these days.
-- hbp
We did some
tinkering with our IBM 5100 the other day with results which
might be of interest.
10 a = 0
20 print a, a*a, sqr(a)
30 a = a + 1
40 if a < 100 goto 20
50 stop
The 5100 seems about 30% faster on though with the
following program:
10 a = 0
20 b = a*a
25 c = sqr(a)
30 a = a + 1
40 if a < 100 goto 20
50 stop
So it seems it is the display which slows it down.
Well, to some extend. To my experiance it's rather the PET who
slowed down the programm. The PET had realy one of the slowest
BASIC interpreters / Systems around at that time. An Apple II
did usualy outperform it by some 30-50% with exactly the same
coding.