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From: evans@mhuxt.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Prodigy vs Mac II
Message-ID: <1740@mhuxt.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-May-87 07:28:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 29 07:28:24 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 31-May-87 14:38:58 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
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Keywords: Prodigy Prime, Mac II, mandelbrot set


Yesterday I had a chance to compare a Mac II (it was at my local dealer's shop
for almost 3 hrs before its new owner came!) and my Prodigy Prime (on my Mac+).

I realize this isn't much of a comaprison, but it is interesting and I don't
have a 68020/68881 option on my C compiler (yet). I used Steven Eubank's
mandelbrot set (which was compiled to take advantage of the 68881 and 68020).
The Prodigy Prime was almost 2x as fast as the Mac II!!! The II was in the
simple (2 grey level) display mode and the program doesn't access the disk.
Can anyone explain the difference? (I can understand a 10 or 20% difference,
but 100% is hard to swallow). The guy at the store loaded up a Mac spin demo
and it was qualitatively slower than on the P' at home - 

Steve Crandall
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