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From: sdyer@bbnccv.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Z-100 blows away IBM-AT
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Date: Thu, 16-May-85 02:05:35 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 16 02:05:35 1985
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> Using a standard BASIC benchmark, the Z-100 (8/16-bit 8088) blows
> away an IBM-AT (16-bit 80286 at 6 MHz).

Were you using the same BASIC interpreter in both machines?  The BASIC
benchmark might be standard, but certainly not the interpreters.  A number
of PC clones seem to have slightly "tweaked" Microsoft BASICs relative
to the PC.  I think a "sieve" object module from a single compiler and
run on both the Z100 and the PC/AT might give a better, less language
dependent benchmark.  That sounds like an interesting experiment given
your promising, but hardly conclusive, results.
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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