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From: carroll@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: RE  The IBM PC...
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Date: 29 Jun 90 16:51:00 GMT
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In article <443@newave.UUCP> john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III) writes:
>> [ ... ] but when you got all done, they claimed that you could run
>> Flight Simulator

>One of the early reasons for clock-speed switches on PCs was that,
>if you run in high-speed mode, the SPACE INVADERS will come and
>squash you before you get 3 shots off, and your flight simulator
>will be simulating Piper Cub controls with a Lear-Jet engine.
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Not to rain on your parade, but one of the strengths of Flight Simulator is
that is is real-time driven, so you don't need a clock switch for it. If you
run on a faster CPU, you get more updates per second, but things still run
in "real time".

P.S. So, to port it to the Cray, you'd just have to rig up a joystick, a
CGA, and port the _assembler_ source to Cray assembler. Yes, folks, Flight
Simulator is written in assembler. I know, I've seen it - I worked for
SubLogic for a summer.

Alan M. Carroll                Barbara/Marilyn in '92 :
carroll@cs.uiuc.edu            + This time, why not choose the better halves?
Epoch Development Team         
CS Grad / U of Ill @ Urbana    ...{ucbvax,pur-ee,convex}!cs.uiuc.edu!carroll