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From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Stellar 7 re-release
Message-ID: <3137.27692c59@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 15 Dec 90 00:47:37 GMT
References: <info-apple-request@APPLE.COM> <9012120353.AA26625@apple.com>
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In article <9012120353.AA26625@apple.com>, MQUINN%UTCVM@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU writes:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 90 21:23:20 GMT <info-apple-request@APPLE.COM> said:
>>The problem still with a GS is that its too slow. (I know, you can get
>>Transwarp, or ZipGS, but you can't rely on someone having it.) I've used a
>>GS a lot, but what is the standard speed of one?
> 
> The GS's native speed is 2.8Mhz...7Mhz Transwarped and 8+Mhz Ziped.
> BTW, a 1Mhz GS is FASTER than a 4.77Mhz ibm.
> The official Apple notes say that the Apple //e (1Mhz) is equal to about
> ..5 MIPS.  I would imagine, that the GS in native mode is 2.8 times this (1.4MIP
> S?) if that .5MIPS is correct.  Is that the way it works?  Anyone?
> I'm really stepping out of my league when I'm talking about MIPS.

I've heard discussion after discussion on the uselessness of MIPS as a 
speed comparison. There are too many other factors that are involved.

A 1Mhz GS faster than a 4.77MHz IBM, this I find hard to believe. If it is 
true, it could just be the fact that the original IBM was produced in 1981, 
and was probably very inefficient. I would like to see a speed test though. 
Anyone got the source code in C for any of the standard tests? (Sieve of 
Erostones (sp?), and a few others I can't think of right now.) We could put 
together a collection of these and run them on all the machines we have 
access to, which would include about every machine concievable!

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