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- From: UC525655@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Mark Eaton)
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- Subject: Re: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks
- Message-ID: <168BEC4B4.UC525655@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 19:59:10 GMT
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- In article <BzAD75.Fzq@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
-
- >
- >In article <Bz2C4s.FqE@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov26.000926.9507@doug.cae.wisc.edu> jimy@cae.wisc.edu (Jim Yu) writes:
- >>Hardware: IBM PS/2 Model 56Slc (386SLC, not sure about MHz)., ATI 8514/
- >> Ultra video, 1024x768x 256 colors (running 8514 driver). 12
- >> Meg. RAM.
- >>
- >> Macintosh IICi, built-in Apple video, 680x480(yuck)x256 colors.
- >> 32 bit addressing turned on, VRAM on, 16 Meg available, disk
- >> cache 384K.
- >>
- >> In the wings (have to try this later): Clone 386-40, 4 Meg RAM,
- >> Diamond Speedstar 800x600x256 color video.
- >>
- >>Software: Excel 3 (I will try it with Excel 4 in the next couple days).
- >>
- >>The test: Put an integer into cell A1. Cells B1 -> Z1 are cell to the left
- >> + 1. Cells A2 -> Z1000 are cell above +1. See how long it takes
- >> to recalc the sheet after changing value of A1.
- >>
- >>Results: Under Windows recalc took 3.3 seconds. On the Mac, 7.5 seconds.
- >
- >Another data point:
- >
- >AMD 386-40, 4 Meg RAM. Excel 4. 2.2 - 2.3 seconds.
- >
- >(On an Amiga 2000 - machine locked up copying 100 cells 9-) )
- >
- >Next thing to try:
- >
- >Excel 4 on Si.
- >Excel 4 on Ci.
- >Excel 4 on PS/2 Model 70 (20 MHz 386)
- >1234W on PS/2 Model 70.
- >Excel 4 on Gateway 486/33
- >1234W on Gateway 486/33
- >
- >What I'd like others to try (I don't have the hardware/software):
- >
- >Quadra 700/900
- >WingZ for Windows and Mac
- >123 4 Mac on various Macs.
- >
- I did the benchmark on my IIsi with % meg RAM and an FPU using
- 123 v.1.0 ---> a whopping 16 seconds! 123 kept complaining about
- low mem, and I do have a lot of extensions running. I can't
- explain such poor performance tho... shrug
-
- >Haven't devised it yet but some silly trig-based floating point
- >spreadsheet. This should show a big 486 vs. 386 (no 387) speedup.
- >
- >Some kind of equally silly wordprocessing task on all the platforms.
- >
- >
- >By the way the scrolling in Excel while I was doing this was pretty
- >fast (Diamond Speedstar card). Not as fast as Lotus 2.0 under DOS
- >on the same machine but who cares?
- >
- >
- >
- >
- >
- >--
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Iskandar Taib | The only thing worse than Peach ala
- >Internet: NTAIB@SILVER.UCS.INDIANA.EDU | Frog is Frog ala Peach
- >Bitnet: NTAIB@IUBACS !
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- Mark Eaton | Opinions? We're not allowed to have
- UC525655@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU | opinions at Mizzou... get back to me
- | in '94 when I graduate... ;)
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