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Re: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks

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From: Iskandar Taib
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:36
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In article <Bz2C4s.FqE@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
>          Macintosh IICi, built-in Apple video, 680x480(yuck)x256 colors.
>          32 bit addressing turned on, VRAM on, 16 Meg available, disk 
>          cache 384K.      

>Results:  Under Windows recalc took 3.3 seconds. On the Mac, 7.5 seconds.


On the same machine: Excel 4 (same memory settings) 5.1 seconds.

With 32 bit addressing turned off: 4.1 seconds.

Virtual memory on/off doesn't seem to make a difference.




















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