Re: Apple II benchmarks

["John King" <joki@eskimo.com>]

FWIW regarding speed, I was pretty underwhelmed at the speed differences
between a Tandy 1000a (4.7 8088), and a Model One @ 2.4 MHz.


"Roy and/or Janet Miller" <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote in message
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> 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
>