On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Derek Peschel wrote:
> And so the computer had a moving-needle efficiency meter on the front
> panel, which presumably integrated a series of pulses (similar to the
> circuit Tony described earlier). Or I suppose it could have divided the
> rate of instruction execution by the rate of drum rotation (since there
> was a timing track on the drum anyway). 100% efficiency was attainable
> but only by simple programs such as a parity check of the drum.
I bet Mel could do it!
(Yeah, I'm sure we all know this link, but here it is anyway,
just in case.)
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/The-Story-of-Mel.html
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Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss_at_subatomix.com
Received on Mon Jan 14 2002 - 09:45:36 GMT