Re: ZIP 8Mhz Apple IIc vs 66MHz IBM Clone: Computer Race

[botting@leper.tamu.edu (Tye W. Botting, aka Warlock)]

%My lowly 386/40 at home benchmarks at 19,000+ Dhrystones, and I 
%had a 486/33 at work that would do about 44,000+ Dhrystones 
%(if I remember correctly).
% 
%I think I remember somebody posting about a GS benchmarking
%600+ Dhrystones at 2.8 Mhz, so at 10 Mhz you'd get about 2200+ 
%Dhrystones or so.

	Minor nit:  Dhrystone is written in C, and is more of a test of how
	optimized the C compiler is than a test of the CPU.  Apple // users
	don't have nearly as optimized a C available to them as do PCers.
	That test on the GS you mention was written in Orca C, which is
	well-known as being pretty slow (albeit not as slow as the small
	Aztec C test package, or HyperC).