Re: Apple II benchmark

[Paul Guertin <pg@sff.net>]

"Penman" <anonymous@cotse.com> wrote:

> I seem to remember a test with the ZipChip 8, and the
> upshot was that the 65c02, being a more efficent
> processor than the x86, they said that the
> 8mhz chip was comprabable to a 33mhz 386, as far as
> doing the same number of instructions per second.
> Does anyone else remember this one?

You know what they say about lies, damn lies, and benchmarks.
There might be a contrived metric according to which an 8 MHz
65C02 is comparable to a 33 MHz 80386, but for all practical
purposes, the 386 will be *much* faster.

Paul Guertin
pg@sff.net