System information
This page gives detailed information about the computer I used for benchmarking.
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Specification of system 10, ARC ProTurbo 8088
This is my first own PC. It was given to me as a reward for fixing something on their Pentium II 350.
Despite upgrades I kept it fairly original. The original ST225 harddrive failed at one point in time so I exchanged it with a 40MB ST157A which is driven by XT-IDE controller card. At the moment I do have a spare ST225 around but the ST157A still works fine and noise-wise it's a very pleasant drive to work with.
The original Hercules/MDA 12" screen is still in the attic but since a few years I'm using a Tulip CGA monitor. The onboard graphics controller drives MDA, CGA and EGA so it's a matter of flipping a DIP-switch to revert back to Hercules/MDA. The manual calls for MDA but it's Hercules compatible.
To spice it up I've fitted an Adlib clone card, a 3,5" diskette drive, a modem an NEOS interface card for a handheld scanner.
Originally the system came with a Mannesmann Tally 80 dot-matrix printer (as seen on the first photo). I used this setup to do a small write-up about printer programs of the day. Read more about it here.
The motherboard is built around a Faraday FE2010A chipset using a WD37C65B floppy controller.
Despite upgrades I kept it fairly original. The original ST225 harddrive failed at one point in time so I exchanged it with a 40MB ST157A which is driven by XT-IDE controller card. At the moment I do have a spare ST225 around but the ST157A still works fine and noise-wise it's a very pleasant drive to work with.
The original Hercules/MDA 12" screen is still in the attic but since a few years I'm using a Tulip CGA monitor. The onboard graphics controller drives MDA, CGA and EGA so it's a matter of flipping a DIP-switch to revert back to Hercules/MDA. The manual calls for MDA but it's Hercules compatible.
To spice it up I've fitted an Adlib clone card, a 3,5" diskette drive, a modem an NEOS interface card for a handheld scanner.
Originally the system came with a Mannesmann Tally 80 dot-matrix printer (as seen on the first photo). I used this setup to do a small write-up about printer programs of the day. Read more about it here.
The motherboard is built around a Faraday FE2010A chipset using a WD37C65B floppy controller.
| Motherboard | ARC ProTurbo 8088 |
|---|---|
| Chipset | FE2010A |
| BIOS | ARC BIOS Version 2.11 |
| RAM | 640KB |
| Drive | XT-IDE v1.1.4 with Seagate ST157A |
| OS | MS-DOS 3.3 |
| Drivers | None |
| Additional info |
Benchmarks
This system is used to benchmark 8088-compatible processors like the original Intel 8088, clones and the NEC V20. To simulate a 4,77MHz 8088 I've benchmarked a genuine 5MHz CPU with turbo-mode off.
This system ran 14 benchmarks of which the last one was a(n) NEC 8088 D.
ARC ProTurbo88
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