4.8

APPLEWORKS & MULTIRAM

General

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Desktop space with different MultiRam C configurations:

MultiRam size

Total Apple

Desktop size

256K

384K

229K

320K

448K

275K

512K

640K

413K

Time to load/save a full disk (135K) of information: 1:15 minutes

Word Processor

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number of lines in document

 

500

1000

2250

2250

platen width (PW), inches

\

a

8.5

8.5

8.5

13.0

left margin (LM), inches

> typical

1.0

1.0

1.0

0.0

right margin (RM), inches

/

page

1.0

1.0

1.0

0.0

memory size

 

 

 

27K55K119K130K

disk size

 

 

 

25K53K111K122K

load/save time, minutes

 

 

:17:311:031:08

time to insert 20

lines at beginning

:08:12

time to insert 20

lines at

end

—-.

:22:26

Spreadsheet

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contents of cell

label/

label/

simple

simple

 

value

value

formula

formula

number of filled cells

5.000

10,000

5,000

10,000

memory size

58K

116K

126K

252K

disk size

57K

113K

125K

250K

Time to recalculate 10,000 formulas of the type “n=n+1”

 

:

2:10 sin.

Time to change cell size ([Open—Apple]+V) for 20,000 cells

:

neglible

Time to insert 250 rows at. top of large (250K) file

 

:

0:08 sin.

Time to insert 250 rows at bottom of large file

 

:

0:48 mm.

Database

 

 

 

 

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number of records

100

1000

 

3300

total size of file

6K

57K

 

310k

individual record size (no. of characters)

100

100

 

100

time for alpha sort, minutes

0:02

0:14

 

:38

time for numeric sort, minutes

0:02

0:30

 

1:30