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From: hagens@uwvax.UUCP (Rob Hagens)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: silly music on the pc
Message-ID: <79@uwvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 18:09:17 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 13 18:09:17 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 02:12:58 EST
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Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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During a dull period of the day, I performed the following experiment:

0) Get 2 PC's close to each other.
1) Start up the silly music sample programs that come with the PC.
2) Start the Blue Danube Waltz on both, at the same time.

I found that by the end of the "music", one PC was about 5 seconds
behind the other.

Both PC's are XT's. The only difference is that one has an IBM color display,
and the other a monochrome display. The slower one had the monochrome
display.

So...

1) why is one PC slower than the other ?
2) have I discovered a new method of PC benchmarking ? 
-- 
Rob Hagens @ wisconsin
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