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Subject: 80286 benchmarks - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 18-Apr-84 17:54:00 EST
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uicsl!keller    Apr 18 16:54:00 1984

(dangling by a single thread)

The March 1984 issue of IEEE Spectrum is devoted to personal computers.
There is an interesting paper on the TI Professional Computer that describes
the speech processing option in medium detail. In the paper on HP's 68000
machines is a description of a project with MIT to make systems for the
introductory programming class that is taught using the Scheme dialect of
LISP. Each machine has 4M bytes of RAM and links to a 66M byte file server.
They say that this isn't a commercial product. There is an article on the
LISA but not the Macintosh.

The Intel people put in a paper about the 80286 that has some timing
comparisons with the 8086, 80186  and VAX 11/780. The timings are relative
to an 8MHz 8086 with no wait states (They're all running at 8MHz.)

	Assembly	EDN*	Dig.Filter	Sieve	Berkeley Pascal
8086	1.0		1.0	1.0		1.0	1.0
80186	1.7		1.2	2.1		1.8	2.6
80286	3.0		2.1	4.0		3.7	5.0
							2.6	VAX 11/780

* EDN refers to another set of benchmarks

It is easy to see that the 80286 is FAST. They mention the 80386 which will
be 2 to 3 times faster yet. You can run faster than an 8MHz clock if you can
afford fast RAM. Watch out CRAY!

Anyone got figures for 68000, 68020, Z8000, NS16032, HPxxxxx, RISC Chips,
etc?

-Shaun