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Re: Salora Manager / Laser 2001 BASIC
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:04 am
by @username@
A nice prime number benchmark for 80's BASIC machines.
https://archive.org/details/InterfaceAg ... 1/mode/1up
Re: Salora Manager / Laser 2001 BASIC
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 12:31 pm
by Mobsie
Great Read. This Digital Equipment
PDP-10 really fast.
Re: Salora Manager / Laser 2001 BASIC
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 1:44 pm
by Scouter3d
The Salora took 874s to complete the prime numer task (without any speedup tricks) :0)
Thats faster than an Apple II Plus (same prozessor, same speed) at 960s
and even faster than a TRS-80 Modell II (Z80 with twice the speed (4MHz)) at 955s
Cheers, TOM:0)
Re: Salora Manager / Laser 2001 BASIC
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:12 pm
by Scouter3d
PS: the Commodore C64 took 1093s ;0)
Re: Salora Manager / Laser 2001 BASIC
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 3:02 pm
by Mobsie
Yes, Apple 2+ runs with a little more then 1 Mhz.
The Salora / Laser2001 runs with 2 Mhz, the Apple Basic must be really optimized.
The C-64 runs with less then 1 Mhz.
Re: Salora Manager / Laser 2001 BASIC
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 3:28 pm
by Scouter3d
Hi Mobsie, you are right, (i got the MHz values from the benchmark results page, they seem to have wrong values :0))
Cheers, TOM:0)
Re: Salora Manager / Laser 2001 BASIC
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 3:45 pm
by @username@
Yes Apple ][ is 1.023Mhz
However - AppleSoft II BASIC == MS-BASIC == Salora Manager / Laser 2001 BASIC.
The main difference is I/O overhead.
Re: Salora Manager / Laser 2001 BASIC
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 6:33 pm
by Mobsie
Now an SD-card based floppy emulation for the Salora / Lassr like we have for the CBM‘S would be cool.
Re: Salora Manager / Laser 2001 BASIC
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 6:35 pm
by Mobsie
Re: Salora Manager / Laser 2001 BASIC
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 7:22 pm
by @username@
Dunno about floppy emulation - as there's no floppy apps etc - or does someone have VisiCalc for Salora Manager?
I suspect it's not too dificult to do through the expansion port - as the existing drive controller manages to place an extra 6k ROM and a PIA there.