IBM 5100 tinkering

From: hansp <hansp_at_citem.org>
Date: Sun Aug 3 18:23:00 2003

Guy Sotomayor wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 07:49, Hans Pufal wrote:

>>So it seems it is the display which slows it down.

> Before you jump to that conclusion, remember that "print" does a fair
> amount of processing to put the numbers into EBCDIC (for the IBM anyway
> -- but ASCII would be similar) as you are dealing with "floating point"
> (it also does *some* column formatting as indicated by "," as opposed to
> ";").

Well yes, when I say display I mean everything around the process of
displaying information on the screen. Much more work would be necessary
to pinpount exactly what was soaking up the time. The IBM actually
blanks the screen when it is processing which leads me to believe it
consumes a not insignificant amount of system resources.

  -- hbp
Received on Sun Aug 03 2003 - 18:23:00 BST