On Mon, 6 Nov 2000 14:15:09 +0000 Christof Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear list,
> usually on this list questions sound like this: "how can I run
> present software on old hardware". I have on that is the other way
> round: I have the impression that my amateur BASIC programmes are
> remarkably slow on Pentium. Do not blame me! I know that I am a
> criminal. But I learnt BASIC at school twenty years ago. When I
> bought my first computer ten years ago, I got a copy of Borland's
> Turbobasic Compiler 1.0 (1987). It is only for a few utilities that
> I used it.
> Is it possible that the old compiler has a bad effect on performance
> on newer machines? Or is it just that I should finally learn a
> language that a computer can understand?
Very interesting!
BTW, I have a BASIC interpreter program that will run very fast on an XT
machine, but it just crawls when I try to use it with a AT 286. I don't
understand. One would think that the program should run better on the
faster 16-bit machine, but it doesn't.
All the best,
Sam Heywood
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