19 Jun
2008
19 Jun
'08
5:37 p.m.
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:
Eric wrote about the AT&T Unix PC (7300):
What I had to compare it to at the time was a Sun 100u and a Tandy 16. It
was comparable to the tandy 16 and significantly slower than the Sun 100u,
especially at transendentals. It was also significantly slower than a 7.16
MHz V30 (also with software floating point). Of couse the PC world was a
far more competitive place for C compilers with everyone saying theirs was
the fastest. I've often wondered if the AT&T and Tandy compilers used
floating point routines provided by Motorola rather than developing their
own.
Eric
Biggest problem was how slow it was at floating
point, probably due to a crappy math library.
Was it significantly slower than other contemporary 68K machines
that used software floating point?