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- PROGRAM: BENCH.BAS
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- GENERAL FUNCTION: Test System performance
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- WHY IS IT NEEDED? To determine performance of system and system BASIC
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- INSTALLATION: Use with BASIC, BASICA, or GWBASIC
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- FORMAT: BASICA BENCH
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- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Works with DOS 2.X.
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- COMMENTS: This program is known as Ahl's Simple Benchmark, and has been run
- on various systems from mainframes to handhelds. The following is a partial
- listing of systems tested and results. NOTE: The lower the accuracy measure
- and randomness number, the better. The accuracy measure should be no great-
- er than .187805 and the randomness number should be no greater than .187805.
- DO NOT COMPILE THIS PROGRAM, ACCURACY REQUIRES THAT BENCH BE RUN FROM BASIC
- ACCURACY AND RANDOM MEASUREMENTS ARE AFFECTED BY VERSION OF BASIC USED.
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- COMPUTER TIME ACCURACY RANDOM
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- Cray 1 0:00.01 .0000000014 6.1
- AT Clone (10mhz) 0:04 .005859375 7.1
- Stearns Micro 0:05 .005859375 7.1
- PC Clone (8mhz) 0:11 .005859375 7.1
- TI Professional 0:15 .005859375 7.1
- Compaq 0:15 .005859375 7.1
- IBM PC (Stock) 0:24 .01159668 6.3
- Osborne 01 1:10 .187805 7.4
- Kaypro II 1:36 .187805 7.5
- Commodore 64 1:53 .0010414235 12.0
- RS TI 99/4A Ext. 4:10 .00000011 10.7
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- SOURCE OF PROGRAM: Creative Computing.
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