NDLI: Processing power on the IBM personal computer

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Gotwals, John K.
Abstract	In the last 20 years there has been nearly a six-order-of-magnitude increase in computing power, and it is predicted that another five-to-six-orders-of-magnitude increase will occur by the year 2000 [1]. Although supercomputers such as the Cray-1 and Cyber 205 can perform certain vector operations with burst rates of up to 100 million floating-point operations per second (Mflops) [2], it is remarkable that a popular and affordable personal computer is only three-orders-of-magnitude slower. Indeed, with suitable software, the IBM Personal Computer (PC) represents a significant advance in usable memory size and floating-point computing power when compared with previous popular microcomputers. It is purpose of this paper to discuss several floating-point compute-intensive benchmark programs which have been run on the IBM PC. These programs utilize the Intel 8087 Numeric Data Processor (NDP), and when coded in FORTH, can approach the NDP maximum compute rate of 0.05 Mflops.
Starting Page	132
Ending Page	142
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0897911237
DOI	10.1145/800219.806660
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1983-12-07
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Processing power on the IBM personal computer