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- From: leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry)
- Subject: Re: ST FORMAT DO IT AGAIN..
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.152620.1302@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
- References: <1992Nov9.103328.24501@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> <1992Nov9.185921.9035@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:26:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.185921.9035@beaver.cs.washington.edu> bgilbert@cs.washington.edu (Ben Gilbert) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov9.103328.24501@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> sergio@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Sergio) writes:
- >>Hi ,I have just recently been to the Future Entertainment show {in England
- >>in London} where I bought a show programme, and in the part where the ST
- >> FORMAT {re Future Publishing} lot where talking about the new Falcon
- >>I happened upon some rather interesting specs..
- >>
- >>
- >>qoute {as far as I can remember}
- >> "...the standard Amiga and ST run at around0.25 MIPS whereas the new
- >> Falcon will be running at 30 to 35 MIPS..."
- >>
- >
- >Just remember that MIPS stands for "Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed"
- >(and various similar things :-). Although the DSP is rated somewhere above
-
- I compiled a Drhystone test the other day which gave a rating of appoximately
- 1500 (Using Lattice C5 compiler). I was reading an Amiga newsgroup for
- details of the A1200 and somebody quoted a figure of appox 1250 d'stones which
- they said is 2.2 times faster than a standard Amiga 500.
- Does anybody know of an accurate speed test which works across a variety of
- machines?
-
- - Leo
-
- PS. I always thought that my ST ran at about .7 Mips.
-