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From: crew@pro-harvest.cts.com (Chris Wicklein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Speed
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Date: 30 Dec 90 03:16:09 GMT
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>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.

        A 2.8MHz GS is about as fast as a 7.7 MHz '286, and an 8MHz GS is
about as fast as a 22MHz '286. Note I'm not comparing the 65816 to the 80286.
I'm comparing the '816, GS design, GS/OS, Toolbox effeciency, etc. to the
'286, IBM AT design, MS-DOS, etc. to gauge over-all preformance. Alot of the
GS's edge is granted by effie
efficient QuickDraw routines and carefull assembly programming by dedicated
individuals. That's the bottom line when it comes to who's faster.
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