BCLERK -vs- ROLC [was: Re: Getting there quickly...]

[Bob Stockler]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:52:41PM -0400, Ken Brody wrote:
| Bob Stockler wrote:
| [...]
| > But it's difficult to tell whether one or the other - BCLERK
| > or ROLC - is faster.  Both are instantaneous.
| [...]
| 
| Back in Tandy 6000 days, when "twice as fast" meant 15 seconds versus
| 30 seconds, it meant a lot.  Today, when it means  15 milliseconds
| versus 30 milliseconds, it has less meaning.  :-)
| 
| Like the name "QuikStart", which meant things like the Medical Office
| System could be loaded in 20 seconds instead of 2 minutes.

I just tried the timing experiment on my old 486/50 system.
BCLERK was 3 tenths of a second faster: 1.00s -vs- 1.30s.

On my new system, both were consistently under 0.30s.

Bob

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