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In article <1gdipoINN749@rave.larc.nasa.gov> w.l.vaughn@LaRC.NASA.GOV (Wallace L. Vaughn) writes:

>>(I write)

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

>>  4.1 seconds on my IIci.  
>I tried it using excel 3 on a IIci, cache card, two screens run in 8 
>bit(640x480) and 4 bit (15" stardard number of pixels) modes with video cards 
>(non-accelerated), system 7.01+, 20 meg ram, 3meg excel partition.

>recalc took 2.5 secs (hand held, so, say give or take 0.2 seconds), looks 
>like Evan may be correct 4.0 may be a little slower than 3.0. Looks like 
>Iskandar Taib is suffering from the onboard video slow down on the IIci or 
>maby the lack of a cache card.

Actually Excel 4 is faster than 3. The time shrank to 4.1 seconds with
4. 

I'm sure the cache card helps a lot.

>Mac II, 16mHz, system 7.01+, 8bit 640 x 480 video, 8 meg ram
>Mac IIci, 25mHz, see above
>386dx, 33mhz system, windows, 3.0, 640x480 svga screen, no cache. 8meg RAM
>                     calc.(sec)       scroll(min:sec)
>Mac II                    35.3            2:16.2 
>Mac IIci                  15.3            1:31.2
>Mac IIci/cache off        19.2            1:44.7
>386dx                     22.5            2:25.3

Hmmmm.

Most 386 motherboards above 25 MHz have a built-in SRAM cache 
these days. Even the bargain basement jobs.



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