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From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Comparing the Mac+ and SE
Keywords: Differences of the two machine
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Date: 20 Apr 91 00:42:49 GMT
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In article <18359@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> jclee@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Jimmy Lee) writes:
> What is the difference, in terms of preformance, between the Mac+
> and the SE?

I was curious when the SE was introduced, so I wrote a benchmark program
in Turbo Pascal and ran it on both machines.  For a program that did
lots of integer and floating point math, some recursion, and a few array
sorts, I was not able to measure any run time difference even though my
program ran for about 3 minutes on each machine.

The clock speed of the SE and Mac + are the same.  The I/O circuitry
is a bit different, so the SE can read from the SCSI bus a bit faster.
As a result, the SE can run with a 2:1 harddrive interleave, where the
Mac + needed 3:1.

But for all practical difference, there is no real speed difference between
the Mac + and the SE.  At least not a difference worth nit picking about.

-john-

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