Re:The ZedRipper: Part 2
by tomcam on Saturday January 02, 2021 @04:49PM
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How fast does Turbo Pascal feel on this machine? I didn’t even know it ran on a Z-80. Also, you are a straight up beast.
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I have a real Kaypro 2 computer with a 4MHz Z80 in it, which I also use Turbo Pascal on - on the Kaypro, it's perfectly usable, but you get used to waiting a few seconds when you're loading files, compiling, etc. On the ZedRipper, when things are executing out of RAM everything is instantaneous. I think the CPU core I'm using is close to cycle-accurate, so it probably is ~35x faster than the Kaypro when executing actual code.