1 Aug
2003
1 Aug
'03
11:34 a.m.
I could run some benchmarks using HP's 1968 HPBASIC if needed.
hansp wrote:
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.