On 1/24/21 11:40 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
Listening to these conversations make me really wish I had not
given my 2 PRO's away.
They are neat, but they are so god-damned slow. Compiles on the pro/380
with an RD52 are 1/4th the speed of an 11/83 with a 330mb ESDI disk.
It's to the point where I compile on the 83, then upload the results to
the Pro to run.
I wonder if compiling a true version of M+ could help: At least you
could dedicate memory as a disk cache to get around that slug of a
controller in there.
But the lack of CPU cache, 10mhz processor, extremely slow disk speed,
and the like really hurt the Pro.
Well, my first LSI-11 was a Terak 8510. It had 28KW of memory and
4 8" RX01 compatible floppies and an LSI-11/02 CPU. And I developed
programs in Pascal, Fortran-77 and COBOL (yes, COBOL!!) on it. Now,
there is slow. I would gladly take a screamer like any Pro over doing
software development on the Terak.
bill
