Re: Apple II in Scientic American

[Roger Johnstone <rojaws@orcon.net.nz>]

In <d057mq$m05$1@nntp.itservices.ubc.ca> Ben Lai wrote:
> I was reading the January issue of Scientific America on the plane (
> only thing available) and came across a column about robots, and they 
> have a little chart comparing the "raw computing muscle" of all the 
> top machines of their time.  You can see it here:
>
> http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=30
> &articleID=00078A55-0CE7-11BF-AD0683414B7F0000
> (Just click on the "More on this article/SIDEBAR" part)
> 
> First thing I noticed was the huge gap between the Apple II and 
> Commodore 64 - considering that they had basically the same processor 
> that's a bit odd.  And then the Playstation2 being barely slower than 
> a Dual G5, also a  bit out of touch.
>
> Oh well...
> 
> Ben

Yeah, someone screwed up the Apple II position on that graph. The C64 is 
in about the right position, but the Apple II is shown as running at one 
tenth the number of instructions per second! A mean feat considering 
they use the same CPU running at the same clock speed.

-- 
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
http://vintageware.orcon.net.nz/
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