jejones@ea.UUCP (11/05/84)
Re clock speed influences: on a SSB Chieftain (2 MHz 6809), running OS-9/6809 Level Two (I'm ignorant of the memory hardware, so can't say about wait states and such technical stuff) on an otherwise unloaded machine, my time was 11 sec., running the code exactly as we've all seen it until we've had enough, no doubt. In BASIC09, one iteration was 15 sec, so one would presume 150 sec for the canonical 10 iterations. Go ahead and say it--the 6809 is blatantly superior (among 8-bit machines; for that matter, I run C benchmarks faster than an IBM PC, and comparably to the slowest times listed in *Byte* for a 10 MHz 8086, so maybe among some 16-bit machines, too). James Jones