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In article <Bz2C4s.FqE@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
>In article <1992Nov26.000926.9507@doug.cae.wisc.edu> jimy@cae.wisc.edu (Jim Yu) writes:
>Hardware: IBM PS/2 Model 56Slc (386SLC, not sure about MHz)., ATI 8514/
>          Ultra video, 1024x768x 256 colors (running 8514 driver). 12 
>          Meg. RAM. 
>
>          Macintosh IICi, built-in Apple video, 680x480(yuck)x256 colors.
>          32 bit addressing turned on, VRAM on, 16 Meg available, disk 
>          cache 384K.      
>
>          In the wings (have to try this later): Clone 386-40, 4 Meg RAM,
>          Diamond Speedstar 800x600x256 color video.
>
>Software: Excel 3 (I will try it with Excel 4 in the next couple days).
>
>The test: Put an integer into cell A1. Cells B1 -> Z1 are cell to the left
>          + 1. Cells A2 -> Z1000 are cell above +1. See how long it takes 
>          to recalc the sheet after changing value of A1.
>
>Results:  Under Windows recalc took 3.3 seconds. On the Mac, 7.5 seconds.

Another data point:

AMD 386-40, 4 Meg RAM. Excel 4. 2.2 - 2.3 seconds. 

(On an Amiga 2000 - machine locked up copying 100 cells 9-) )

Next thing to try: 

Excel 4 on Si. 
Excel 4 on Ci.
Excel 4 on PS/2 Model 70 (20 MHz 386)
1234W on PS/2 Model 70.
Excel 4 on Gateway 486/33
1234W on Gateway 486/33

What I'd like others to try (I don't have the hardware/software):

Quadra 700/900 
WingZ for Windows and Mac
123 4 Mac on various Macs.

Haven't devised it yet but some silly trig-based floating point 
spreadsheet. This should show a big 486 vs. 386 (no 387) speedup.

Some kind of equally silly wordprocessing task on all the platforms.


By the way the scrolling in Excel while I was doing this was pretty
fast (Diamond Speedstar card). Not as fast as Lotus 2.0 under DOS 
on the same machine but who cares?





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