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From: lsr@apple.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Disk speeds on Atari ST and Macintosh
Message-ID: <451@apple.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Feb-87 15:38:25 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  6 15:38:25 1987
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Reply-To: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
Organization: Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer
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Keywords: disk speed I/O interleave transfer formatter

In article <756@tekfdi.TEK.COM> mhorne@tekfdi.UUCP (Mike Horne) writes:
>Basic is the pits!  In fact, he kinda liked it!  But look at the disk
>reads and writes for the ST that were quoted in the article.  Are you kidding?

The May 1986 BYTE has benchmarks of the Mac, ST, and Amiga done by Bruce
Webster.  These were done in a variety of languages (on the ST, he used
Personal Pascal, and Hippo C), picking the best times for each machine.
The disk tests were: write 64 512-byte blocks, read the blocks
sequentially, and read the blocks randomly.

The results were (in seconds):
		Mac Plus	ST	Amiga
write		  2.3		30.3	7.3
seq read	  1.1		15.9	5.1
random read	  4.6		14.2	17.8

The ST came out best when run on performance benchmarks (sieve, quicksort),
however.