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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
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- Subject: Re: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks
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- Date: 17 Dec 92 19:47:03 GMT
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- In article <1gdipoINN749@rave.larc.nasa.gov> w.l.vaughn@LaRC.NASA.GOV (Wallace L. Vaughn) writes:
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- >>(I write)
-
- >>>Results: Under Windows recalc took 3.3 seconds.
- >>>On the Mac, 7.5 seconds.
-
- >> 4.1 seconds on my IIci.
- >I tried it using excel 3 on a IIci, cache card, two screens run in 8
- >bit(640x480) and 4 bit (15" stardard number of pixels) modes with video cards
- >(non-accelerated), system 7.01+, 20 meg ram, 3meg excel partition.
-
- >recalc took 2.5 secs (hand held, so, say give or take 0.2 seconds), looks
- >like Evan may be correct 4.0 may be a little slower than 3.0. Looks like
- >Iskandar Taib is suffering from the onboard video slow down on the IIci or
- >maby the lack of a cache card.
-
- Actually Excel 4 is faster than 3. The time shrank to 4.1 seconds with
- 4.
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- I'm sure the cache card helps a lot.
-
- >Mac II, 16mHz, system 7.01+, 8bit 640 x 480 video, 8 meg ram
- >Mac IIci, 25mHz, see above
- >386dx, 33mhz system, windows, 3.0, 640x480 svga screen, no cache. 8meg RAM
- > calc.(sec) scroll(min:sec)
- >Mac II 35.3 2:16.2
- >Mac IIci 15.3 1:31.2
- >Mac IIci/cache off 19.2 1:44.7
- >386dx 22.5 2:25.3
-
- Hmmmm.
-
- Most 386 motherboards above 25 MHz have a built-in SRAM cache
- these days. Even the bargain basement jobs.
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