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From: olson@harvard.UUCP (Eric Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Prodigy vs Mac II
Message-ID: <1090@harvard.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 10:07:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: harvard.1090
Posted: Mon Jun  1 10:07:00 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jun-87 00:39:46 EDT
References: <1740@mhuxt.UUCP>
Reply-To: olson@harvard.UUCP (Eric Olson)
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Keywords: Prodigy Prime, Mac II, mandelbrot set

In article <1740@mhuxt.UUCP> evans@mhuxt.UUCP (Steve Crandall) writes:
>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).

Part of the time difference is that the Prodigy, when properly configured 
(i.e., use Mac RAM for RAMDisk, Prodigy RAM for RAM), has zero wait state
memory.  The Mac II, I believe, has one wait state memory.  Also, if the
tests are graphically oriented, keep in mind that the Mac II has a larger
screen (if a full-screen graphics test) and Color quickdraw bottlenecks in
various places.

-Eric