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From: Steven D. Rogers
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1985 17:58
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MS-DOS FORTRAN 3.2 and above, Lahey F77, and probably IBM
FORTRAN 2.0, and IBM Professional FORTRAN handle larger
models for source and data

i understand that by being clever one can use about 128K with
hardly any degrading of performance

in regards to performance, some data derived from many
runs of a discrete simulation package suggests the 
following rules of thumb:

AT performance is 3x of PC
math co-processor increases performance by a factor of 5
using memory larger than 64k for source or data decreases performance
   by half


will be glad to hear from anyone else whose opinions, rules of
thumb, or experience is different
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Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 13:58:32 EDT
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