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From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry)
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Subject: Re: Benchmarks on ][e, Mac, "PC", & 2000
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Date: Fri, 20-Apr-84 13:07:40 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 20 13:07:40 1984
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>Conclusion:  The Tandy 2000 is over twice as fast as the competition.
 
Ummm... Well, my conclusion would be that Microsoft Basic for the
Mac is godawful slow.   The tests in question WERE run in Microsoft
Basic on the Mac, no?  

I question the portability of language-implementation-dependent benchmarks 
(like mid$) in any case.  When every micro was based on BASIC, and
very similar BASICS at that, it made some sense.  Nowadays, fewer
machines have resident BASICS, and there are zillions of different
BASICS available for any given machine.  (Check out the April Byte!)
Under the circumstances, I don't think you can count 'running the
same Basic program' as an independent variable anymore.

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Betsy Perry
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