18 Feb
2015
18 Feb
'15
7:21 a.m.
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, Fred Cisin wrote:
Microsoft FORTRAN for the PC was unimpressive.
Integer sieve of Erastothanes ran slower than interpreted BASIC!
What version was that? In 1991 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.
I was a poor engineering student so this was my on my old Tandy 1000A with a 286
accelerator and 287 math chip.
Kelly