ebray@pacsbb.UUCP (Eric Bray) (06/16/89)
This is some data comparing the MYARC GENEVE 9640 & the TI-99/4A doing a sort using extended basic. Other computers are included for references! 100 PRINT "CREATING ARRAY" 110 DIM A(150) 120 FOR J=1 TO 150 130 A(J)=151-J 140 NEXT J 150 PRINT "SORTING" 160 EX=0 170 FOR K=0 TO 149 180 IF A(K)>A(K+1) THEN T=A(K) :: A(K)=A(K+1) :: A(K+1)=T :: EX=1 190 NEXT K 200 IF EX<>0 THEN GOTO 160 THE FOLLOWING ARE TEST RESULTS EXPRESSED IN MINUTES:SECONDS MYARC GENEVE 9640 (INTEGERS) - ABASIC 3:06 MYARC GENEVE 9640 (FLOATING POINT) - ABASIC 4:19 IBM PC 5:45 GOLDSTAR MSX 6:20 APPLE II PLUS 6:24 MYARC GENEVE 9640 (EMULATING TI 99/4A) 6:30 APPLE IIc 6:33 COMMODORE VIC-20 6:34 IBM PCjr 6:59 COMMODORE 64 7:02 COMMODORE 8032 7:16 TRS-80 COLOR COMPUTER 8:01 COMMODORE 16 8:35 COMMODORE PLUS/4 8:36 ATARI 800XL 8:55 ATARI 800 9:00 TI-99/4A (ONLY DOES DOUBLE PRECISION F.P. MATH) 12:58