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- Given 640K bytes of memory, 720K bytes of disk space on the default drive,
- and sufficient time, the command "HP <printer>" will generate a 768 room three
- dimensional maze on a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet IID printer. The maze will be
- drawn at 300 dot per inch resolution.
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- Run in the "PC DOS compatibility box" of OS/2 on the hard drive of an IBM
- PS/2 Model 80-041 running the High Performance File System with a 1024K byte
- disk cache, HPMAZE.EXE takes 1 hour and 15 minutes to generate a maze.
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- On the Model 80, an OS/2 version of the program, written in C, keeping the
- contents of HPMAZE.TMP on the heap, and generating the output in one pass
- instead of four requires only 5 minutes. There is much to be said for the
- large heap available in OS/2!
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