Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!thad
From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: General whining about slowness of 3b1....
Message-ID: <17137@cup.portal.com>
Date: 14 Apr 89 05:25:25 GMT
References: <509@flatline.UUCP> <1901@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>
Distribution: unix-pc
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Lines: 16

I concur with Alex' statements.  My own tests show the 3b1 to be faster
overall than a Mac ][ (except for floating point), and definitely more done
per unit time than with the office VAX 11/780 in EVERY respect (running VMS
4.7 and 14MB RAM; the 3B1 is 3.5MB RAM with the 67MB HD).

From your description of the speed (or, more properly, the lack thereof), it
suggests that your PASCAL is an interpreter rather than a compiler.

If you really want a fast PASCAL compiler, contact LPI; email me for the
address.  LPI also has excellent Fortran and other languages for the 3B1 (as
shown at the recent UNIFORUM in San Francisco).  Their products are NOT
inexpensive; I'm still budgeting to buy their Fortran since I have some 30
years' worth of plotter stuff, math libraries, etc. that I want to run on the
3B1 (which I'm presently running on an Amiga 68020 using AbSoft's Fortran).

Thad Floryan [thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad]