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[–] snaggen 5 points 10 months ago

This was in 1985, on a ABC80, a Swedish computer with a 3 MHz CPU. So, in theory it would be much faster, but I assume there were many performance losses (slow basic interpretor and thing like that) so that for loop got close enough to a second for us to use.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_80