Theory of Operation
RELATIVE MICROPROCESSOR PERFORMANCE
Norton’s System Information version 4.50 was used to measure the
ZT 8808A and ZT 8809A processor performance relative to that of
the IBM PC. The test compared several processing tasks; the test
results are presented in Table 3-1.
Table 3-1
Processor Speed Comparison.
Average Test Score
Test
Relative to 4.77 MHz PC
ZT 8808A
ZT 8809A
Computing Index (CI)
2.0
3.3
Disk Index (DI)
1.8
2.6
Performance Index (PI)
1.9
3.0
3-3
