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Question. Basic with good math libraries
03-13-2018, 07:53 PM
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RE: Question. Basic with good math libraries
(03-13-2018 05:35 PM)Garth Wilson Wrote:  The FFT word FOUR could do a 1024-point complex fast Fourier transform in half the time it took the original IBM PC to do it in GWBASIC, even though the PC had the clock speed advantage by a factor of 7½ times.

A friend of mine worked in a university lab in the mid-80's, and they used an HP-71 and HPIL card as a "coprocessor" for an IBM XT because it was much faster and more capable than anything they had for the PC. IIRC they were using this setup mostly for matrix operations.
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RE: Question. Basic with good math libraries - John Keith - 03-13-2018 07:53 PM



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