Short:        CPU speed benchmark program
Author:       Gareth Murfin (gazy@globalnet.co.uk)
Uploader:     Gareth Murfin (gazy globalnet co uk)
Type:         util/moni
Architecture: m68k-amigaos



                     tCPU - Amiga Bench Mark CPU tester
                     ----------------------------------
                                By Gareth Murfin

 tCPU is a simple program which you place in your C: directory and then in shell
 type 'tCPU'. It will calculate the speed of your CPU by doing a few different
 tests and averaging the results. It is measured in 'Murfins' which is similar
 to MIPs or Mhz, although obviously they are on a completely different scale.

 Here is a graph so that you can rate the performance of your CPU, although
 you should be aware that sometimes a CPU seems far too fast or slow. This is
 quite rare, but Ive had reports about it. I suppose you could call  these
 types of results anomalies, which need to be sorted out. tCPU averages out
 all the results so 95% of the time you can be sure you're getting a correct
 reading.

 the thing to remember with tCPU is that the LOWER the Murfins the faster
 your CPU is, my 060 scored 93.3 Murfins although Ive had reports of some
 040's scoring exceptionally well presumable because of some command which the
 060 hasnt got :)

   CPU speed                                - Line graph to show the RAW speeds
   (Murfins)                                  of the Amiga 68k CPU in Murfins
         |                                    as measured using tCPU.
     130-|
         |                           ____/·
     120-|                          /
         |                         ·
     110-|                  ______/         * Please don't assume this graph
         |                /·                  is 100% accurate, also some CPU's
     100-|   ______.-----/                    unexplainably perform better/worse
         |  /                                 than this graph predicts.
      90-| ·
         ¦/
         +----------------------------------
          060     040     030     020    000

                   CPU (68k)


  Feedback
  --------

  To improve the accuracy of tCPU please send me your Amiga spec and CPU speed
  in 'Murfins' to gazy@globalnet.co.uk. An ideal way is to do :

  tCPU >ram:temp

  and send me the file ram:temp. As it contains all the information I need ;-)


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  Gaz - gazy@globalnet.co.uk
      - GalaxyNet #AmIRC (SpryNet.Us.GalaxyNet.Org)
      - http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~gazy/


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