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- From: dlopez@shearson.com (David Lopez)
- Subject: Re: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.174636.5809@shearson.com>
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- Reply-To: dlopez@shearson.com
- Organization: Lehman Brothers, Inc.
- References: <Bz2C4s.FqE@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:46:36 GMT
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- i am not sure how good a benchmark your example is for the reason that
- microsoft makes dos,windows and excel. they are known to tweek windows or
- their applications for a competitive advantage over their rivals. since
- they dont have the internals for macos they cant do the same on the mac
- version of their software....
-
- as for macos being 32 bit OS, there is an option to run it in 24 bit
- mode which is what i do for running older apps.
-
- In article FqE@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu, ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- >
- >Oh? Lets come up with some easy-to-do Windows vs. Mac benchmarks then. I
- >just tried one. Here we go:
- >
- >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.
- >
- >Subjective (I'll time it next time):
- >
- > Setting up the spreadsheet took considerably longer on the Mac.
- > The cell copy took far longer. Video refresh (move from cell
- > Z1000 -> A1) was a lot slower on the Mac. The spreadsheet almost
- > took up all the 1.5 Meg fixed stack allocated to Excel 3 - there
- > is no fixed stack under Windows. Excel can have as much RAM as
- > is physically (and virtually) available.
- >
- >In the works:
- >
- > I'll try this and other benchmarks on different machines. Don't
- > have a Quadra to try though. I want to see what a 386-40 can do -
- > the 56slc has a 16 bit bus (sorta like a LCII). I'll try a scrol-
- > ling test next, or a copy/paste or moving a bunch of cells.
- >
- >
- >>We all know that Windows is *SLOW*, unlike the 32-bit Mac OS.
- >
- >Do we now. Do you know something we don't? See above. 32 bit OS? System
- >7 is no more "32 bit" than Windows 3.1. In Windows 3.1 you can use 32-
- >bit video drivers (eg. Panacea WinSpeed) and 32-bit disk addressing. If
- >System 7 is a true 32-bit OS why can the guy down the hall run it on a Mac
- >Plus?
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