Re: What are SpecInt and SpecFp of Apple II?

[sknkwrks@brownie.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)]

In article <pollenCK71J5.2CL@netcom.com> pollen@netcom.com (David Pollen) writes:
>Can anyone give me decent figures for the various Apple II's
>i.e. +, e, etc?  I've wondered about this for a while?  I
>still have my Apple II+ from 1981.  (Still Works)  And, I was
>curious about its actual performance so I could compare it
>to my current systems.  

Hmm...floating-point benchmarks would be useless since the Apple II
doesn't (usually) have an FPU installed; floating-point math is
usually handled by (1) the ROM-based BASIC interpreter, (2) SANE, or
(3) routines written by a programmer for a specific job.  As for
integer benchmarks...don't know about those, but I think someone
pegged the II's speed at about 0.3 MIPS, when running at 1 MHz.  (It'd
be neat to build a "MIPS meter" sometime and hook it up to the
instruction-fetch pin on the CPU to see what happens. :-) )

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