[Coco] CPU speed in MIPS

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Thu Apr 19 22:25:21 EDT 2007


On Apr 19, 2007, at 8:59 PM, Diego Barizo wrote:
> Surprisingly, the high speed poke turns a sluggish CoCo into a PC  
> killer (The T.1100 laptop)
> The poor rating on the Print test for the CoCo 3 is because I used  
> one of the hi-res text modes.
> But anyway, the CoCo3 seems slower than a 2. Might be because the 3  
> is always in "all RAM"?

When I worked at Radio Shack (88-90-ish), I would run BASIC tests on  
the 1000s and the CoCo.  Only the 286 1000 model (TL?) in turbo speed  
could beat the CoCo at BASIC tests I did :)

		-- Allen





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