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Performance evolution of the Archimedes and various competitors

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English: Performance measurements of the Archimedes and other personal computers as reported by various sources, converted to VAX MIPS for comparison, for the fastest variants of these computers available over the indicated timespan.
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set terminal svg enhanced size 1280 960 font "DejaVu Sans,24"
set output 'Archimedes_performance.svg'
set title "Performance evolution of the Archimedes and various competitors"
set xlabel "Year"
set ylabel "VAX MIPS"
set yrange [0:*]
set style data histogram
set style histogram cluster gap 1
set style fill solid border -1
set key top left reverse Left
set boxwidth 0.8
set xtics scale 0
plot 'Archimedes_performance.dat' using 2:xtic(1) ti col linecolor rgb "#0080FF", '' u 3 ti col linecolor rgb "#FF8000", '' u 4 ti col linecolor rgb "#80FF80", '' u 5 ti col linecolor rgb "#FF80FF"

Data

# Performance evolution of the Archimedes and various competitors (VAX MIPS by year)
#
Year	"Archimedes (ARM2, ARM3)" "Amiga (68000, 68020, 68030, 68040)" "Compaq Deskpro (80386, 80486, Pentium)" "Mac II, Quadra/Centris (68020, 68030, 68040)"
1987	2.8	0.5	2.1	1.6
1988	2.8	1.5	3.5	2.1
1989	2.8	3.0	6.6	3.3
1990	10.5	3.6	14.7	6.1
1991	13.8	3.6	19.2	8.3
1992	13.8	18.7	28.5	10.6
1993	15.1	21.6	40.3	13.1
#
# Sources:
#
# Archimedes:
#
# 1987-1989: Archimedes 310 (4901 Dhrystones, 2.8 VAX MIPS)
# https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1987-10-rescan/1987_10_BYTE_12-11_Heuristic_Algorithms/page/n130/mode/1up
#
# 1990: Archimedes 410/1 (18367 Dhrystones, 10.5 VAX MIPS)
# 1993: Acorn A5000a (26491 Dhrystones, 15.1 VAX MIPS)
# https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=286141#p286141
#
# 1991-1992: Acorn A5000 (13.8 VAX MIPS, based on Dhrystone 2.1 score)
# http://www.netlib.org/performance/html/dhrystone.data.col0.html
#
# Amiga:
#
# 1987: Amiga 1000 (0.54 VAX MIPS based on Dhrystone 1.1 score)
# http://www.netlib.org/performance/html/dhrystone.data.col0.html
#
# 1988: Amiga 2500/20 (1.5 VAX MIPS, estimated from the Amiga 1000 rating
#                      multiplied by the ratio of the A2620 and A2000 Dhrystone
#                      performance scores, 2.80 * 0.54)
# 1989: Amiga 2500/30 (3.0 VAX MIPS, estimated from the Amiga 1000 rating
#                      multiplied by the ratio of the A2630 and A2000 Dhrystone
#                      performance scores, 5.51 * 0.54)
# http://amiga.resource.cx/perf/aibbde.html
#
# 1990: Amiga 2000 68030/33 (3.6 VAX MIPS based on Dhrystone 2.1 score)
# 1992: Amiga 2000 68040/25 (18.7 VAX MIPS based on Dhrystone 2.1 score)
# 1993: Amiga 2000 68040/28 (21.6 VAX MIPS based on Dhrystone 2.1 score)
# http://www.netlib.org/performance/html/dhrystone.data.col0.html
#
# Compaq:
#
# 1987: Compaq Deskpro 386/16 (3748 Dhrystones, 2.1 VAX MIPS)
# https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1987-10-rescan/1987_10_BYTE_12-11_Heuristic_Algorithms/page/n130/mode/1up
#
# 1988: Compaq Deskpro 386/20 (3.5 VAX MIPS, estimated from the 386/16 rating
#                              multiplied by the ratio of the 386/20 and 386/16
#                              CPU performance scores,
#                              3.61 / 2.20 * 3748.0 / 1757.0)
# https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1989-fall-6-IBM_special_OCR/page/n56/mode/1up
#
# 1989: Compaq Deskpro 386/33 (11657 Dhrystones, 6.6 VAX MIPS)
# https://archive.org/details/sim_personal-workstation_1990-05_2_5/page/n70/mode/1up
#
# 1990: Compaq Deskpro 486/25 (25778 Dhrystones, 14.7 VAX MIPS)
# 1991: Compaq Deskpro 486/33 (33664 Dhrystones, 19.2 VAX MIPS)
# https://archive.org/details/sim_personal-workstation_1991-04_3_4/page/68/mode/1up
#
# 1992: 486DX2/66 (28.5 VAX MIPS based on an average of Dhrystone 2.1 scores,
#                  calculated from all results matching "486DX2" and "66",
#                  yielding 16 scores)
# http://www.netlib.org/performance/html/dhrystone.data.col0.html
#
# 1993: Compaq Deskpro 5/66M Model 510 (70822 Dhrystones, 40.3 VAX MIPS)
# https://archive.org/details/apc-1993_07/page/138/mode/2up
#
# Macintosh:
#
# 1987: Mac II (2861 Dhrystones, 1.6 VAX MIPS)
# 1988: Mac IIx (3680 Dhrystones, 2.1 VAX MIPS)
# 1989: Mac IIci (5725 Dhrystones, 3.3 VAX MIPS)
# 1990: Mac IIfx (10752 Dhrystones, 6.1 VAX MIPS)
# https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1990-09/page/n181/mode/2up
#
# 1991: Quadra 700 (8.3 VAX MIPS, estimated from the Mac IIci rating
#                   multiplied by the ratio of the Quadra 700 and IIci
#                   processor timings, 241.0 / 95.0 * 5725 / 1757.0)
# 1992: Quadra 950 (10.6 VAX MIPS, estimated from the Mac IIci rating
#                   multiplied by the ratio of the Quadra 950 and IIci
#                   processor timings, 241.0 / 74.0 * 5725 / 1757.0)
# 1993: Quadra 840AV (13.1 VAX MIPS, estimated from the Mac IIci rating
#                     multiplied by the ratio of the Quadra 840AV and IIci
#                     processor timings, 241.0 / 60.0 * 5725 / 1757.0)
# https://archive.org/details/MacWorld_9310_October_1993/page/n87/mode/2up
#
# Remarks:
#
# 1 VAX MIPS == 1757 Dhrystones
# Dhrystone 2.1 scores are used where available.

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