18 Feb
2015
18 Feb
'15
7:41 a.m.
Microsoft FORTRAN for the PC was unimpressive.
Integer sieve of Erastothanes ran slower than interpreted BASIC!
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015, Kelly Leavitt wrote:
What version was that? In 1991
1983 Version 1.0
Hopefully it was improved by the time that you got it.
I was using Microsoft FORTRAN on the PC
for ground water modelling. The floating point matrix math was much
faster than anything I could do in BASIC by several orders of magnitude.
The comparison was INTEGER, and not using any floating point (which
FORTRAN likes to call "REAL".
I was a poor engineering student so this was my on my
old Tandy 1000A
with a 286 accelerator and 287 math chip.