Dan Ingalls <Dan@[...].org>  wrote:
<snip> 
>  The Dorado was quite a machine for a personal computer -- the size of a small refrigerator
 and packing ECL circuitry with a micro cycle time of 25 nanoseconds.  We predicted that it 
would get us under a microsecond per bytecode, and it did -- just.  I don't remember the sen
d speed, but it should have scaled pretty much as now, relative to the bytecode speed, which
 would put it around 40K sends per second.
>  

Which, amusingly, puts it right in the range of my NetBSD powerbook
540 (33 mhz 68lc040) with a slow memory bus.

0 tinyBenchmarks '1481481 bytecodes/sec; 56086 sends/sec'

So, I have a mini dorado!

In fact, in MVC, it is quite the usable Squeak machine.  It's not good when more
than one person is using it though :-(&