Some CPC benchmarks...

[TFM]

... can be found here:

http://cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Speedcheck

[steve]

Two questions.

Is the time in seconds or milliseconds

and

Is the time the average of ten tests or the total time taken to perform ten tests.

[TFM]

Two questions.

Is the time in seconds or milliseconds

and

Is the time the average of ten tests or the total time taken to perform ten tests.

The time is in seconds

And the mean time is given, not the total.

Thanks for the questions, I'm going to update it.

[Gryzor]

Very interesting article - but please do keep in mind that orphan pages tend to be burried... where could we insert some links?

[Devilmarkus]

for this tests only real CPCs has been used.

Format	FutureOS	XD-DOS	Disc'o'Magic	CP/M 2.2	CP/M 3.1	Utopia	Windows 2000
Data	16	17	18	33	33	43	n.f.
Vortex	64	65	n.f.	65	n.f.	n.f.	104

I please want the CPC with Windows 2000!

[Devilmarkus]

Also: Where is the test with SymbOS / Symbiface II?
Edit: Also with PARADOS rom?

how fast Kangaroo can make a song about formatting a disc?

[steve]

Also: Where is the test with SymbOS / Symbiface II?
Edit: Also with PARADOS rom?

You miss the point, which is to show how much faster FutureOS is.

[Devilmarkus]

You miss the point, which is to show how much faster FutureOS is.

Oh... is it? 

Well maybe it is...
But when there is a test made, it should be done also with SymbOS

[TFM]

Very interesting article - but please do keep in mind that orphan pages tend to be burried... where could we insert some links?

Good question, I did put it in hardware and software categories, but I'm sure one will have better/additional ideas.

Also: Where is the test with SymbOS / Symbiface II?
Edit: Also with PARADOS rom?

This has to be done! And I will do it as soon as I can access real hardware again. But feel free to contribute here  Also it may make sense to check SOS version 1 and 2, there may be differences. Parados was released in one version? (Was it?). Guess yes, have to check...

You miss the point, which is to show how much faster FutureOS is.

Well, Windows2000 beats it once a while


BTW: Windows2000 benchmarks have been done with a 900 MHz AMD Duron PC. I don't know if it makes sense to keep this part since it's not CPC, but I had the numbers...


In case something is not clear, please ask, then we can improove that widget

[TFM]

Format	FutureOS	XD-DOS	Disc'o'Magic	CP/M 2.2	CP/M 3.1	Utopia	Windows 2000
Data	16	17	18	33	33	43	n.f.
Vortex	64	65	n.f.	65	n.f.	n.f.	104

I please want the CPC with Windows 2000!

Hahaha! Take CP/M 2.2 instead, as you can see it's more quick here!

[Executioner]

Parados was released in one version? (Was it?). Guess yes, have to check...

Two versions (1.0 and 1.5), but the formatting is the same. btw, you can't physically format a 40 track , 360 rpm disc any faster than 60/360 * 2 * 40 = 13.33 seconds, and that's assuming the stepping happens fast enough to hit the index hole next time around.

[TFM]

Two versions (1.0 and 1.5), but the formatting is the same. btw, you can't physically format a 40 track , 360 rpm disc any faster than 60/360 * 2 * 40 = 13.33 seconds, and that's assuming the stepping happens fast enough to hit the index hole next time around.

Is this theory? Or did you do a real test on a real CPC?

Are 360 rpm drives existing for CPC? Like I remember they are HD format on 5.25" and will not run without deeper hardware modifications.

[TFM]

Added some values for SymbOS:


Speedcheck - CPCWiki

[Trebmint]

Well thats the final nail in symbos

[Bryce]

Well thats the final nail in symbos

Because we mainly use the CPC due to it's disk access times??

Bryce.

[CraigsBar]

So futureos is faster. That was never a question. But symbos looks like a better technical feat. IMHO f-os is an unfriendly place when compared to symbos. Symbos won't die all the time I use it. And the sna launcher is awesome.

[MacDeath]

Of course FutureOS is faster : it doesn't have to support the heaviness of SymbOS display/desktop.

FuturOS is an icon based mouse-GUI, SymbOS is a multitask oriented Windows interface.
And futurOS was developped with efficiency in mind... hence no fancy nor easily customisable desktop... no redimensionable windows either or no/limited interactive screen setting/display.

FuturOS should really invest in another pair of 16k ROMbanks and bootdisk option (for other settings) so you don't have always the default display with shittons of actually unused features... 8 disk drives icons on screen ? and I don't have any realtime clock as well (sadly) lol... could easily save one line of icons... and get one HUD line of character to display "help and hint" when mouse is pointing at an icon...

Also I did some nice icons sets with lots of variants. Please TFM when will you modify FutureOS's website so we can see them ?

But SymbOS is a great visual demo to impress AmigaOS users : look I have "win95" on my CPC.
had quite a success with it at a Demoscene big party full of AmigaOS users...
and I can only run the desktop background with my 128k... 

anyway both are great technical achievments.

[Gryzor]

Whoa CP/M sucks!

[ralferoo]

The tape benchmarks are missing too... 

[mr_lou]

The tape benchmarks are missing too... 

I've heard that your tape-loaders beats FuturOS in loading time...

[AMSDOS]

Whoa CP/M sucks!

I didn't think it was any worse or better than AMSDOS.


But it's possible to speed up drive access in CP/M which I guess makes those Benchmarks meaningless.

[MacDeath]

CP/M was mostly legacy system because muh Z80/8080 clone.

[BSC]

... can be found here:

Speedcheck - CPCWiki

Wow! Finally! Those long awaited benchmarks everyone was waiting for since Roland went to Space!

[MaV]

Roland went to Space. Why, he never told me! 

[TFM]

Well thats the final nail in symbos

?? ?? ?? No the results are well. (Added one more value).