CalcPI from 1989

[FoliuS]

I was digging around my office's vault yesterday and found a disk labled Benchmarking Program - 1996.... opened it up and it was a simple exe file but it was created April 30, 1989 or so says the file information. It really works too! Just open up cmd, nav to the directory and run the calcpi. type in any number under the max and let it run. Not really an "xtreme benchmark" but a pretty cool find.

You cannot run the exe directly. It will only close when you type in a #.

[NickS]

Hmm, may have to try this later when I get home. Thnx :)

[WrigleyVillain]

Hee hee NickS wasn't even born yet :)

[triple_A]

'96?
Did we even have electricity at that time? :shrug:

:D
pretty cool, downloading...

I just realized you said it was created in april 1989, which means it is 5 months older than i am :eek:

[tet5uo]

Can't get it to run on 64bit OS :(

[Spectrobozo]

91.8 seconds to calculate 150000 Decimals of pi
x2 brisbane @ 2.6ghz

[DualCpuUser]

Can't get it to run on 64bit OS :(

You can't run a 16 bit exe on x64 as there is no 16bit subsytem thunking layer, it was replaced for WOW32 to run 32 bit exes, and I would have to double check, but I do not even think once the proc is in protected x64 mode there are no 16bit TSS gates to even run it.

[tet5uo]

well.... I suppose there's enough ways for me to calculate PI anyhow... and I don't feel like dual-booting.. I'm actually not minding vista at all now.