Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uwvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!uwvax!hagens 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 Article-I.D.: uwvax.79 Posted: Thu Dec 13 18:09:17 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 02:12:58 EST Distribution: net Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 21 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 ...!{allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo,sfwin,ucbvax,uwm-evax}!uwvax!hagens hagens@wisc-rsch.arpa