From Roberto Panetta, "News from Tension Software

From Roberto Panetta, "News from Tension Software: Upgrade version 1.6.4 of Flight Master, the shareware flight planning software for Mac. This version solve some bugs and has some small enhancements. The manual was partially rewritten.

Tom Trankle obtained some math benchmarks on a 3400/200, G3/233 and an 8600/300:

"I ran a Matlab benchmark on some Macs at the Mac store this evening after work. The results were:

 Test  3400/200  G3-233  8600/300
 Loops

4.14

0.89

1.58

 LU Decomposition

2.14

0.55

0.98

 Sparse Matrix

2.14

0.83

0.90

 3-D Plotting

3.92

1.32

1.96

 2-D Plotting

11.21

2.72

2.88

The table indicates time in seconds. Smaller numbers are better. Matlab is a general purpose math/engineering analysis program. Loops is a complicated For loop. LU decomposition and sparse matrix are linear equation solutions.

The PowerPC G3 CPU is really looking good!

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