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From: gd@geovision.uucp (Gord Deinstadt)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle Graphics
Summary: Huh?
Keywords: Unreal time
Message-ID: <773@geovision.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 90 03:01:46 GMT
References: <1990Jan23.211014.11783@iisat.uucp> <90024.082638KDA101@PSUVM.BITNET>
Reply-To: gd@geovision.UUCP (Gord Deinstadt)
Organization: GeoVision Corp, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <90024.082638KDA101@PSUVM.BITNET> KDA101@PSUVM.BITNET (KeithPetto Alexander) writes:
>In article <1990Jan23.211014.11783@iisat.uucp>, roberts@iisat.uucp (Greg
>Roberts) says:
>>
>>I run a NEC 286 with a co-processor and it is just about drawing real time.
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...and...

>either) it does just like the man said, showing orbital tracks in realish
                                                                ^^^^^^^^^^
>time on my Co-processed 286. 
^^^^^

Um... 90 minutes to plot one orbit?  Isn't that a tad slow?
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Gord Deinstadt   gdeinstadt@geovision.UUCP
I'll bet they really meant "not so slow I can't stand it".