Re: [NTLK] The MP2000 has a faster (clocked?) CPU than the

From: Adam Warner (lists_at_consulting.net.nz)
Date: Mon Oct 22 2001 - 02:25:26 EDT


On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 18:26, Paul Guyot wrote:
>
> >It would be an interesting (though pointless) revelation if some models
> >of the MP2000 had the fastest CPU, even faster than the MP2100!
>
> Sorry to put an end to this dream, but this isn't the case. There
> are, in several places, bits of code which depend on the speed of the
> CPU. And the MP2100 and MP2000 ROM are strictly identical.
>
> The actual clock speed is 161.9 MHz and I think that 162 is the
> rounded value and 167.9 a mistake.

Thanks Paul. The 167.9 quoted in both places in the document must have
been a simple mistake (although a mistake that a technical person would
find difficult to make).

Well it was a nice piece of trivia.

> >Since I'll be upgrading my MP2000 soon I could help determine this.
> >Since the benchmark has to have low RAM usage how about a really long
> >newtonscript loop, say ~ 10 minutes (with sleep disabled)? Utilising the
> >1/60 counter and a stopwatch for confirmation as well.
>
> This would be useless...

Inaccurate would have been less savage :-)

Regards,
Adam

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