See also
- SysSpeed
- Dhrystone
- FLOPS
- Kickstart (Amiga)
- Intuition (Amiga)
- AmigaDOS
- Amiga models and variants
- Instructions per second (IPS)
- Amiga Chip RAM
- Amiga custom chips (OCS, ECS, Agnus, Denise, Ramsey, Gary, etc.)
- Motorola 68000 family
| Original author(s) | Nic Wilson [1] |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Tobias Geijersson [2] |
| Stable release | |
| Written in | Assembly language (HiSoft Devpac) [1] |
| Operating system | AmigaOS 68k [1] |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Benchmark |
| License | Shareware [1] |
| Website | sysinfo |
Sysinfo is a shareware program written completely in Assembler for the Motorola 68k equipped Amiga computers to benchmark system performance. Sysinfo shows which version of system software is present in ROM, which hardware is present, and which operating mode the hardware uses.
SYSINFO V3.22 An Amiga System Information Program Written in Assembler Nic Wilsson Software P.O. Box 1164 Toowoomba Qld 4350 Australia SYSTEM SOFTWARE INSTALLED LIBRARIES INTERNAL HARDWARE MODES kickstart (512K) $00F80000 V37.350 Clock CLOCK NOT FOUND utility CHIP RAM $00000554 V37.3 DMA/Gfx ECS AGNUS - 2Meg graphics CHIP RAM $00002A68 V37.41 Mode NTSC:Hires keymap CHIP RAM $00006D68 V37.2 Display ECS DENISE layers CHIP RAM $000081D8 V37.9 CPU/MHz 68000 7.16 intuition CHIP RAM $00009984 V37.331 FPU NONE dos CHIP RAM $00011498 V37.45 MMU N/A VBR N/A SPEED COMPARISONS Comment What can I say! Dhrystones 519 You X Horiz KHz 15.72 A600 68000 7MHz 0.98 X EClock Hz 715909 B2000 68000 7MHz 0.74 X Ramsey rev N/A ICache N/A A1200 EC020 14MHz 0.42 XX Gary rev N/A DCache N/A A2500 68020 14MHz 0.25 XXX Card Slot YES IBurst N/A A3000 68030 25MHz 0.11 XXXXX Vert Hz 60 DBurst N/A A4000 68040 25MHz 0.02 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Supply Hz 60 CBack N/A CPU Mips 0.54 FPU MFlops N/A QUIT MEMORY BOARDS ICACHE IBURST CBACK Chip Speed vs A600 1.00 DRIVES SPEED PRINT DCACHE DBURST ALL
SYSINFO V4.0 An Amiga System Information Program Written in Assembler Contact address SysInfo@d0.se web page http://sysinfo.d0.se SYSTEM SOFTWARE INSTALLED LIBRARIES INTERNAL HARDWARE MODES kickstart (512K) $00F80000 V37.175 Clock CLOCK FOUND utility CHIP RAM $000007CC V37.3 DMA/Gfx STD AGNUS - 512K graphics CHIP RAM $00004258 V37.35 Mode PAL keymap CHIP RAM $00008548 V37.2 Display STD DENISE layers CHIP RAM $000099B8 V37.7 CPU/MHz 68000 7.09 intuition CHIP RAM $00009E5C V37.318 FPU NONE dos CHIP RAM $00012470 V37.44 MMU N/A VBR N/A SPEED COMPARISONS Comment What can I say! Dhrystones 539 You X Horiz KHz 15.60 A600 68000 7MHz 1.00 X EClock Hz 709379 B2000 68000 7MHz 0.77 X Ramsey rev N/A ICache N/A A1200 EC020 14MHz 0.44 XX Gary rev N/A DCache N/A A2500 68020 14MHz 0.26 XXX Card Slot NO IBurst N/A A3000 68030 25MHz 0.11 XXXXX Vert Hz 50 DBurst N/A A4000 68040 25MHz 0.02 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Supply Hz 50 CBack N/A Mips 0.56 MFlops N/A QUIT MEMORY BOARDS ICACHE IBURST CBACK Chip Speed vs A600 1.03 DRIVES SPEED PRINT DCACHE DBURST ALL
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