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Article #24812Re: Disk speeds on Atari ST and Macintosh
From: lsr
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1987 20:38
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1987 20:38
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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.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-spam!mordor!styx!lll-lcc!pyramid!voder!apple!lsr 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 Article-I.D.: apple.451 Posted: Fri Feb 6 15:38:25 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 8-Feb-87 02:11:13 EST References: <8701290450.AA16048@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <2165@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <211@mks.UUCP> <756@tekfdi.TEK.COM> Reply-To: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) Organization: Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer Lines: 18 Keywords: disk speed I/O interleave transfer formatter