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Documentation for Quick Index 1.0
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(C) 1989 by Darek Mihocka and Ignac Kolenko
April 8, 1989
Quick Index runs on any ST, color or mono.
Quick Index - the ST System Performance Evaluation Program
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Ever wondered how fast your ST is? With the different versions of
TOS, and all of the dozens of TOS "hooks" already available (e.g.
GDOS, Turbo ST), almost every ST system is unique. And soon, the
16 MHz boards and the Atari TT will be available.
With all these different ST systems, the time has arrived for a
benchmarking program to evaluate the efficiency of these STs.
Quick Index measures the speed of 5 different parts of the ST:
- CPU
- VT52 text output
- GEM dialog boxes
- GEMDOS file creation
- raw disk DMA sector I/O
To run Quick Index, double click on the file QUIKDEX.PRG. When the
main dialog box appears, click on the GO! button. The 5 tests will
start. After about one or two minutes, the results of the tests
will be printed beside the 5 categories.
As a reference, we used a stock 520ST with a single sided floppy
disk and color monitor (in low resolution). Such a system will
show speeds of 100% in each of the 5 categories.
For comparison, a 1040ST running TOS 1.4 with a hard disk drive is
50% faster at text and GEM output, equal in CPU speed, and about
20 to 30 times faster in the GEMDOS and DMA operations.
Using Atari's GDOS, the efficiency of GEM drops by about 20%.
Quick Index is released as shareware, and 6th in the Quick family
of shareware utilities. Your one $30 contribution entitles you to
receive updates of all the Quick utilities. More information will
be available in a few days in release 1.3 of the Quick software.
New versions of Quick View, Quick Find, Quick Inf, Quick Print,
and Quick Index will be included in that release.
Check the ST libraries on Compuserve and GEnie for this release.