-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 4:49 AM
Subject: Re: z80 timing... 6502 timing
>> Some things in this contest that sound reasonable to me;
>
>> Input and output are to memory resident buffers.
>
>> Inline code is too boring, and subrountine calling too important, so the
>> "task" should require perhaps modules; maybe make the contest half a
dozen
>> subroutines which get called from a contest defined main program (using
>> some typical non asm language like C or pascal).
>
>> Contest submissions could be a simple binary file, file length,
predefined
>> jump table for subroutines, the actual code. Some third party, can run
the
>> code and time it on the hardware of their choice.
>
>Nice, but with these things, like internals of the system for input/output,
>binary and similarities, you tie again all down to a single system to
>use - we loose the idea of a cross platform competition where only basic
>processor features are measured (see also the subject).
>
>Gruss
>H.
>
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Received on Tue Apr 20 1999 - 10:05:05 BST