[sci.space.shuttle] Shuttle Graphics

gd@geovision.uucp (Gord Deinstadt) (01/31/90)

In article <90024.082638KDA101@PSUVM.BITNET> KDA101@PSUVM.BITNET (KeithPetto Alexander) writes:
>In article <1990Jan23.211014.11783@iisat.uucp>, roberts@iisat.uucp (Greg
>Roberts) says:
>>
>>I run a NEC 286 with a co-processor and it is just about drawing real time.
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...and...

>either) it does just like the man said, showing orbital tracks in realish
                                                                ^^^^^^^^^^
>time on my Co-processed 286. 
^^^^^

Um... 90 minutes to plot one orbit?  Isn't that a tad slow?
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Gord Deinstadt   gdeinstadt@geovision.UUCP
I'll bet they really meant "not so slow I can't stand it".