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- From: smp@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Samuel Penn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Acorn v Research Machines
- Message-ID: <C1B9C4.F06@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 14:24:03 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.123339.25009@aston.ac.uk> <1993Jan22.123831.25072@aston.ac.uk>
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- Reply-To: smp@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Samuel Penn)
- Organization: Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh U
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- While on the subject of Rm Nimbus's (the computer my previous school insisted
- on buying), here is a bit of info which I thought anyone out there who is
- lucky enough not to have used these machines may be interested in, just so
- you can see how BAD they really are:
-
- When I got my Arch, I naturally did some speed tests to compare it with my
- BBC Master. One simple one was a simple FOR..NEXT loop for 1 to 1000000
- (I think - it may have been 100000, I'm not sure). Anyway:
-
- A3000 : about 4 seconds
- Master : about 40 seconds
- RM Nimbus : Since RM BASIC doesn't have a time function like BBC BASIC does,
- I used a stop watch. I got bored and wandered away after 2 minutes.
- this was on a Nimbus 186 (?)
- And these are meant to be 16 bit computers?
-
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-
- Sam (aka The Eternal Halfling). | "Ilharessen zhaunhil alurl"
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