Squeak History... don't forget the Levco Prodigy! :-)
Bruce ONeel
edoneel at sdf.lonestar.org
Tue Apr 22 14:44:24 UTC 2003
Dan Ingalls <Dan at SqueakLand.org> wrote:
<snip>
> The Dorado was quite a machine for a personal computer -- the size of a small refrigerator and packing ECL circuitry with a micro cycle time of 25 nanoseconds. We predicted that it would get us under a microsecond per bytecode, and it did -- just. I don't remember the send speed, but it should have scaled pretty much as now, relative to the bytecode speed, which would put it around 40K sends per second.
>
Which, amusingly, puts it right in the range of my NetBSD powerbook
540 (33 mhz 68lc040) with a slow memory bus.
0 tinyBenchmarks '1481481 bytecodes/sec; 56086 sends/sec'
So, I have a mini dorado!
In fact, in MVC, it is quite the usable Squeak machine. It's not good when more
than one person is using it though :-(&
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