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- From: maupb@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr J L Saunders)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Acorn v Research Machines
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 17:33:00 -0000
- Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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- References: <1993Jan22.123339.25009@aston.ac.uk> <1993Jan22.123831.25072@aston.ac.uk> <C1B9C4.F06@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
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- In article <C1B9C4.F06@dcs.ed.ac.uk> smp@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Samuel Penn) writes:
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- %When I got my Arch, I naturally did some speed tests to compare it with my
- %BBC Master. One simple one was a simple FOR..NEXT loop for 1 to 1000000
- %(I think - it may have been 100000, I'm not sure). Anyway:
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- %A3000 : about 4 seconds
- %Master : about 40 seconds
- %RM Nimbus : Since RM BASIC doesn't have a time function like BBC BASIC does,
- % I used a stop watch. I got bored and wandered away after 2 minutes.
- % this was on a Nimbus 186 (?)
- %And these are meant to be 16 bit computers?
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- I think you'll find that the A3000 is 32 bit.
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- Jason L Saunders [ RouE ]
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