Info about Z80 machine

"Wordstar on an 4.077 MHz 8088 could keep up with my typing; WinWord under Windoze on a 300 MHz PII can't." --Seth Breidbart (That it cites a PII-300 as the "modern" machine gives some idea how old the quote is.) In computers, it does seem to go that way. "Every program grows until it is able to read mail." I suspect it's largely due to Moore's Law: hardware has gotten so incredibly faster that it's now not only feasible but economic to put a general-purpose computer running a general-purpose OS into mobile phone. We tend to not notice it, because we've gotten so used to it. But computers have grown more powerful to an extent that is completely unmatched in any other field of human endeavour I can think of. If athletes' performance had increased correspondingly, track-&-field would be dealing with severe relativistic effects. If workers' wealth production had kept that sort of pace, we'd all be working five or ten seconds a year and still living like J. Paul Getty. If a factory turning out, say, cheap kids' toys produced one defective product per billion, that would be unbelievably good. A computer that mis-executed one instruction per billion wouldn't even last long enough to finish booting. If it could be made to with as little effort as a modern computer can be made to do "anything"? Then, hell yes! /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B