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Article #5464Weirdness in the PCjr - faster than normal 'bug'.
From: Tim Iverson
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1986 03:51
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1986 03:51
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Recently, a friend of mine said that by firing up SuperCalc and then exiting his PCjr would perform nearly twice as fast as it did before using SuperCalc. Thinking this behavior to be rather odd, I ran a bench mark program (the public domain dhrystone program distributed over net.sources) before and after the alleged speed increase. Well, it was faster: 195 dhrystones/sec before, and 396 dhrystones/sec after (the same as a PC). Needless to say, I am curious about the cause of this serendipitous event, and if any of you happen to know the answer I would like to know why this happens. Please post to the net (no e-mail), as I am sure others are interested as well. Thanks, Tim Iverson.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.berkeley.edu.BERKELEY.EDU Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax.berkeley.edu!cory!iverson From: iverson@cory.BERKELEY.EDU (Tim Iverson) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Weirdness in the PCjr - faster than normal 'bug'. Message-ID: <11540@ucbvax.berkeley.edu.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 22:51:02 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.11540 Posted: Fri Jan 24 22:51:02 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Jan-86 03:52:28 EST Sender: usenet@ucbvax.berkeley.edu.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: iverson@cory.UUCP (Tim Iverson) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 15