Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!fernwood!portal!atari!towns From: towns@atari.UUCP (John Townsend) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: TT speed figure Message-ID: <2217@atari.UUCP> Date: 14 Jun 90 16:44:44 GMT References: Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 34 in article , cmm1@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Christopher M Mauritz) says: > > l86@nikhef.nl (Hugo Burm) writes: > >>The developers version of the TT (16 MHz) runs >>at 4100 Dhrystones >>(Turbo C 2.0, 68020 compiler switch on, cache on, >>run in dual purpose RAM (time sliced with the video logic)) >>A normal ST runs at 1700. > > 4100 Dhrystones? ACK! That is awful. You can get that kind of > performance from a vanilla 386 clone. For comparison sake (no flames > please) people on comp.sys.amiga have stated that they have gotten > double this figure on the 25mhz A3000. I'm not sure how much of > this difference is because of the faster clock or from the 68882 > in the A3000. I wonder what kind of Dhrystone figure a Mac IIcx > would produce? > > Chris > > [... Longish Signature Deleted ...] Why don't you try comparing the figure to something that is in the same "computing class"??? Why not see what the Dhrystones are for a Macintosh SE/30 are? Or perhaps a Mac IIcx? Comparing the figures of a TT to an Amiga 3000 running at 25MHz is not even close to a fair comparison. I would be willing to bet that the TT would compete favorably with an equally equipped A3000. -- John Townsend Atari Corp.