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From: kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling)
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Subject: Re: Z machine et al
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Date: 28 Dec 90 08:33:45 GMT
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In <1990Dec28.001940.25138@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
 xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>[interesting stuff about PETs]
>On the other hand, dumping text to the screen from BASIC was painfully
>slow, even for those days.  Perhaps that is where the perception of a
>slow BASIC arose.

This reminded me of a quote in "OEM Integrator" last summer...
I figured you might be interested in it, altho it's obviously not
always true:

* Traditionally, at least according to Jones, PCs have been designed
* like terminals, with designers concentrating on improving CPU
* performance while ignoring I/O completely.  Jones harkened back to
* what customers want in the minicomputer marketplace. "If you really
* look at what customers buy, it is not MIPS," he said. "What the
* world really buys is I/O throughput."

The rest of us call this the "instant gratification" theory <grin>.
 - kev  <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu>