Apple II benchmarks

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

I was reading an old Byte last night, and article comparing an 8086-2
based clone against an IBM PC and an Apple IIe running ProDOS. Some
interesting comparisons:
 Disk read/write in BASIC
    A2 - 36/37  PC - 46/56
Sieve test in BASIC
    A2 - 245 secs  PC- 191 secs
Calculations in BASIC
    A2 - 94 secs  PC - 69 secs
Spreadsheet recalc
    A2 - 22 secs  PC - 11 secs.

Not too bad, pitting a 1 mhz 6502 against a 4.77 8088. Oh, on the last
one, how did the 8086 do? at 4.77 exactly the same as the PC. By the
way, the Calculations was 10,000 multiply and divide operations, the
spreadsheet was recalculating a 25 by 25 cell sheet with each cell 1.001
times larger than the cell to its left. And my IIc+ is about 3.5 times
faster than the IIe.

Roy