Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!gnh-starport.cts.com!kimbrennan From: kimbrennan@gnh-starport.cts.com (Kim Brennan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Speed comparisons Message-ID: Date: 21 Dec 90 11:46:52 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 15 X-Unparsable-Date: Thu Dec 20 90 at 11:18:11 (EST) Ryan, many years ago one of the writers in BYTE magazine did a bench mark series comparing the speed of a Apple //e against the IBM PC (not XT). His findings were that the Apple //e was about 1% faster. Not enough to make a difference to anybody. Remember though, that that was an 8088 against an 65C02. In almost every generation of Intel chips since then the capabilities of the chips have increased and NOT by just the clock speed. There are some fanatical Apple // people who seem to remember that original benchmark and extrapolate it to mean that a 2.8MHz GS is equivalent to a 12Mhz 286. It just isn so. The 65816 unfortunately doesn't do 16bit data transfers...all at once that is. The 286 has a 16bit bus and CAN do 16 bit data transfers that way. SO it is somewhat faster than the 65816. The 386 and the 486 speed up operations even MORE so by increasing speed of operations EVEN at the same clock as the 286.