Low End Mac Benchmarks

Macintosh SE

Dan Knight - 1998.10.06 - Tip Jar

cache  CPU  graphics  disk   math
 32KB  0.98   0.98    1.13   0.99
 64KB  0.98   0.98    1.12   0.99
128KB  0.98   0.98    1.13   0.99
256KB  0.98   0.98    0.91   0.99

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