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In article <BzAD75.Fzq@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
 
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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.
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>>          Macintosh IICi, built-in Apple video, 680x480(yuck)x256 colors.
>>          32 bit addressing turned on, VRAM on, 16 Meg available, disk
>>          cache 384K.
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>>          In the wings (have to try this later): Clone 386-40, 4 Meg RAM,
>>          Diamond Speedstar 800x600x256 color video.
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>>Software: Excel 3 (I will try it with Excel 4 in the next couple days).
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>>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.
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>>Results:  Under Windows recalc took 3.3 seconds. On the Mac, 7.5 seconds.
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>Another data point:
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>AMD 386-40, 4 Meg RAM. Excel 4. 2.2 - 2.3 seconds.
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>(On an Amiga 2000 - machine locked up copying 100 cells 9-) )
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>Next thing to try:
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>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
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>What I'd like others to try (I don't have the hardware/software):
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>Quadra 700/900
>WingZ for Windows and Mac
>123 4 Mac on various Macs.
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I did the benchmark on my IIsi with % meg RAM and an FPU using
123 v.1.0 ---> a whopping 16 seconds! 123 kept complaining about
low mem, and I do have a lot of extensions running. I can't
explain such poor performance tho... shrug
 
>Haven't devised it yet but some silly trig-based floating point
>spreadsheet. This should show a big 486 vs. 386 (no 387) speedup.
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>Some kind of equally silly wordprocessing task on all the platforms.
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>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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