Re: Apple II benchmarks

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Paul Guertin wrote:

> Are you sure that the "calculations" test involved integer multiply and
> divide? The 8088 doesn't do floating-point operations in hardware.
> Besides, I seem to remember that the hardware multiply on the 8088 was
> very slow -- you could actually write a software multiply with 512 bytes
> of tables that was faster than the built-in one.

Paul, it's on page 234 of the April 1986 edition of Byte. (I thought it was 1985,
my mistake - sorry.) "The Calculations benchmark times 10,000 multiply and divide
operations."  "The Spreadsheet benchmark loads and recalculates a 25- by 25- cell
spreadsheet where each cell equals 1.001 times the cell to its left."  Hope that
helps.  :-)

Roy