IBM 5100 tinkering

From: Rick Bensene <rickb_at_bensene.com>
Date: Sat Aug 2 00:03:00 2003

I'd be happy to try benchmarks out on:

A) TRS 80 Model 100 (MS BASIC)
B) HP 9830 (HP BASIC subset)
C) Tandy 600 "Laptop" (MS BASIC)

Rick

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Hans Franke
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:54 AM
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: IBM 5100 tinkering
>
>
> > We did some tinkering with our IBM 5100 the other day with results
> > which
> > might be of interest.
>
> > 10 a = 0
> > 20 print a, a*a, sqr(a)
> > 30 a = a + 1
> > 40 if a < 100 goto 20
> > 50 stop
>
> > The 5100 seems about 30% faster on though with the
> following program:
>
> > 10 a = 0
> > 20 b = a*a
> > 25 c = sqr(a)
> > 30 a = a + 1
> > 40 if a < 100 goto 20
> > 50 stop
>
> > So it seems it is the display which slows it down.
>
> Well, to some extend. To my experiance it's rather the PET
> who slowed down the programm. The PET had realy one of the
> slowest BASIC interpreters / Systems around at that time. An
> Apple II did usualy outperform it by some 30-50% with exactly
> the same coding.
>
> Gruss
> H.
>
> And back from KFest.
>
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