my first computer, game of "life"

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Fri May 29 15:49:58 1998

At 09:42 AM 5/29/98 -0800, Tim Shoppa wrote:
>
>Fast FPGA's and clever logic lets modern folks do 600 x 800 (or larger)
>at faster than 60Hz. Still, I'd prefer a board full of TTL :-).

The Amiga's graphics blitter chip was smart enough to perform
the operations of Life. According to some messages I found,
on 7 Mhz 68000 machines, it would do 1.3 million cells/second.
Someone else reported 19.8 generations/second for a 318 x 188 grid.

- John
Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm>
Received on Fri May 29 1998 - 15:49:58 BST

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