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TEST1.COM, TEST10.COM, and TEST100.COM are timing loop programs
that can be used to test the relative processing speed of different
computer systems. Unlike some speed testing programs
(i.e. Norton Utilities SI) it has been specifically optimized during
compilation to use the internal registers of the CPU so the external
bus speed is removed as a factor in the calculations.
As implied by the filenames, TEST10 takes approximately ten times
as long to run as TEST1, and TEST100 takes approximately 100 times as
long. You cannot break out of the timing loop program while it is
counting therefore, given that TEST100 takes about 8 minutes to run on
a 33MHz 486, you should probably avoid running TEST100 on a machine
much slower than this. It may take 30 minutes or longer to run on a
20MHz 386sx. If you use TEST.BAT to run each program in order, you can
break out of the process between tests if you wish. If you run TESTx and
you find that you do not want to wait for the timing loop to complete,
you will have to RESET to break the loop.
To run these programs simply execute TEST.BAT. This will run each of
the programs in sequence and output the results. If you wish, you may
of course run each one individually. If you run these programs through
a multitasking environment such as MS-Windows 3.x, the results you
get will most likely be incorrect because of the processing overhead
created by such an environment.
To make a hard copy of the results, simply do a Print Screen after
the programs have completed their execution.
For reference, the following are some APPROXIMATE times for various
machines:
486-50 486 2-50 486-33
TEST1 3.4sec 3.4sec 4.8sec
TEST10 33.6sec 33.7sec 48sec
TEST100 5:36min 5:37min 8:01min
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