verify.speeds

Mail-From: SEM created at 12-Jul-83 13:27:10
Date: 12 Jul 1983 1327-EDT
From: Steve Meretzky <SEM at ZORK>
Subject: $VER
To: consumers at ZORK

I have done a study of relative verification speeds on most machines.
Here are the results. The first number indicates the number of seconds
required to verify Zork I. The second number is the relative verification
speed, using the PDP-11 on-line version as the standard.

PDP-11 (hard disk)     8 seconds     1.00
Apple IIe             20 seconds     2.50
Macintosh             23 seconds     2.88
PDP-11 (floppy disk)  33 seconds     4.13
IBM PC                33 seconds     4.13
TI Professional       33 seconds     4.13
DEC Rainbow           37 seconds     4.63
NEC APC               48 seconds     6.00
Osborne 1             51 seconds     6.38
TRS-80 Model III      62 seconds     7.75
Atari 800             95 seconds    11.88
TI-99                131 seconds    16.38
Commodore 64         255 seconds    31.88