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From: covertr@gtephx.UUCP (Richard E. Covert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GEM performance
Summary: ABC-GEM 2.1??
Message-ID: <44011e96.14a1f@gtephx.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jun 89 15:35:01 GMT
References: <8906201254.AA14022@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: AG Communication Systems, Phoenix, Arizona
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In article <8906201254.AA14022@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET ("Julian F. Reschke") writes:
> 
> Some interesting results obtained with QuickIndex 1.5
> (the ST System Performance Evaluation Program by Darek Mihocka
> and Ignac Kolenko). This program tests the performance of some
> aspects of the Atari.
> 
> GEM-Draw-Test (multiple drawing of a dialogue):
> 
> System software         'normal'    with blitter
> 
> TOS 1.4                 100%        133%
> TOS 1.4 with GDOS        78%         97%
> TOS 1.4 with AMCGDOS     90%        115%
> ABC-GEM 2.1 (GDOS is
> built-in!!!)            158%        231%
> 

	Julian didn't show how G-PLUS 1.3 (from Codehead Software) would fare
in his tests. G-PLUS is a replacement for GDOS.


	Also, what the heck is ABC-GEM 2.1??

	Does it fix the problems with earlier GDOS??

	How does someone go about getting it??

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rich (gtephx!covertr) covert