Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!petunia!csuchico.edu!ekrimen From: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Quick ST vs Turbo ST Message-ID: <1991Feb19.235931.21308@ecst.csuchico.edu> Date: 19 Feb 91 23:59:31 GMT References: Sender: news@ecst.csuchico.edu (USENET) Distribution: comp Organization: California State University, Chico Lines: 39 alanh@logitek.co.uk (Alan Hourihane) writes: - With all this talk about Turbo ST and Quick ST, I decided - to put it to the test on my machine. I have an Atari 520STFM upgraded - to 2.5MB and TOS 1.0 Any TOS 1.0 machine would return the same results as a 2.5meg 520STFM; that is, with nothing installed. With memory resident programs installed, you'd most likely get varied results. - I am using Quick ST V2.2D-(Demo Version) and Turbo ST - V1.6D-(Demo version). - - I received these figures:- - [figures deleted for space considerations] Unfortunately, this comparison doesn't tell us anything about either program. The QuickST 2.2 Demo isn't running at full speed, for what reason I don't know; how do you test a program, which is supposed to speed up your computer considerably, with a demo that doesn't run at full speed? Secondly, TurboST is up to something like 1.84, in which case the TurboST1.6 Demo shouldn't even be allowed to line up on the starting blocks. Moreover, the TurboST1.6 Demo runs at full speed, but only runs for 15 minutes or so, if I remember correctly; IMHO, this is a better way of distributing a demo. - I would like to see what people get with a similar setup, - but with both commercial versions rather than the demos. I am also curious what people with the various versions of TOS get with the actual programs. Maybe, since I have both, I should find someone with TOS 1.0 and borrow their computer. Gee, what I have I gotten myself into? :^) -- Ed Krimen ............................................... ||| Video Production Major, California State University, Chico ||| INTERNET: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu FREENET: al661 / | \ SysOp, Fuji BBS: 916-894-1261 FIDONET: 1:119/4.0