That was my exact first computer with the CGA graphics, GEM Desktop, Locomotive Basic etc. All the software came in 4 360KB diskettes. The diskettes had each it's own beautiful color. There were 3 sample Basic programs that seemed to me quite advanced. One sample was a document management system. Another was a drawing program where you could draw with a mouse.
Didn't know that GEM Desktop was made by Digital Reasearch. It was a very good windowing system. I believe it was based on MS-DOS. There was also a CP/M OS.
So much software in only 1.2MB.
IME, they’re still pretty bad at getting specific implementation details of SIMD correct. The best I’ve done so far is to harness them to an actual piece of hardware and have them iterate until they see performance improvements but 1) Goodhart’s law, they tend to overfit the benchmark suite and 2) the resulting SIMD often becomes illegible.
nit: 5.1MP/s to 11.2MP/s is not an increase of 220%, it's an increase of 120%. it's 2.2x faster, but percentage increase starts at 0%, not 100%. 100% faster is double, 200% faster is triple.
Indeed, don't forget it is more powerful than computers like this one,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_PC1512
using faster with x/times is just begging for misunderstandings