First post, by noshutdown
i wrote a little stupid program in basic and i wanted to test the speed difference between gwbasic and ibm rom basic, as well as that of dosbox. and the measured running time is:
gwbasic: ~1.3 seconds in dos, and 53 seconds in dosbox.
ibm rom basic: 4 seconds in dos, and 60 seconds in dosbox.
this seems to indicate that ibm rom basic is ~15 times slower in dosbox than in dos, while gwbasic is ~40 times slower. what makes them behave so differently?