Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!DOCKMASTER.ARPA!TMPLee From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: speed comparisons Message-ID: <880919162920.693551@DOCKMASTER.ARPA> Date: 19 Sep 88 16:29:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 5 Did a very minor experiment on my new PC transporter. The ads claim it runs three times as fast as an XT. Wrote a little loop in Basic (GW BAsic on the PC; applesoft on the GS) -- A = 10 : A = A*A . Put inside a 5000 iteration FOR loop the GS program took 15 seconds, the PC transporter 12 (modulo measuring errors.)