Fw: DOS performance on the OmniGo
William Ofosu-Amaah (XI6W-OFSA@asahi-net.or.jp)
Thu, 1 Aug 1996 12:42:12 +0900
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> From: Man F Wong <Man.Wong@internetmci.com>
> To: William Ofosu-Amaah <XI6W-OFSA@asahi-net.or.jp>
> Subject: DOS performance on the OmniGo
> Date: Thursday, August 01, 1996 6:38 AM
>
> -- [ From: Man F Wong * EMC.Ver #2.3 ] --
>
> Hi, y'all!
>
> FYI, I ran the MIPS.COM v1.2 benchmark on the OmniGo in DOS mode. For
some
> reasons uncertain to me, the OmniGo's performance on this simple
benchmark
> was roughly 25% poorer than the 8Mhz HP200lx despite the OmniGo's 16Mhz
186-
> class cpu. Here are the results:
>
> 4.7Mhz XT 8Mhz AT Compaq 386 | Actual MIPS
> General Instructions 1.20 .35 .18 | .19
> Integer Instructions 2.39 .37 .16 | .40
> Memory to Memory 1.13 .35 .19 | .26
> Register to Register 3.12 .41 .17 | .56
> Register to Memory 1.19 .36 .20 | .36
> |
> Overall Performance 1.52 .37 .18 | .35
>
> A poster (Kerry Podolsky) to comp.sys.palmtops recently tested the
HP200lx
> and received results of 1.98 and .48 for overall performance compared to
> the XT and the AT respectively. I'm not sure what to make of the
OmniGo's
> slower than expected performance. Perhaps, it uses slower components
> external to the cpu, eg. bus, memory, etc. Maybe somebody around here
can
> figure it out, but at least now you have some idea of the OmniGo's
> performance compared to other x86/88 systems.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> _Man_
>
> PS: May I trouble you to forward this to the OGO mailing-list? Thanx!