Tables accompanying the article “The Lisa 2: Apple’s ablest computer,” published in Byte, issue 12/1984, pp. A108, A114.

Table 1: Lisa 2/5 and 2/10 performance figures:

	Empty LisaWrite file			37,000-byte LisaWrite file			Empty LisaDraw file			40,000-byte LisaDraw file
Measured times in seconds	2/5	2/10	Ratio 2/10 to 2/5	2/5	2/10	Ratio 2/10 to 2/5	2/5	2/10	Ratio 2/10 to 2/5	2/5	2/10	Ratio 2/10 to 2/5
Test run immediately after start-up
Open first time	29	25	0.9	33	28	0.8	34	27	0.8	98	90	0.9
Save and put away	15	20	1.3	63	51	0.8	14	16	1.1	13	14	1.1
Open second time	4	3	0.8	7	6	0.9	6	5	0.8	69	66	1.0
Set aside	6	3	0.5	7	6	0.9	6	5	0.8	8	8	1.0
Test run after two other applications are active
Open first time	37	29	0.8	39	31	0.8	36	26	0.7	100	86	0.9
Save and put away	16	16	1.0	52	51	1.0	10	10	1.0	13	12	0.9
Open second time	5	4	0.8	7	6	0.9	7	5	0.7	68	70	1.0
Set aside	6	4	0.7	7	7	1.0	6	5	0.8	8	8	1.0
Save a duplicate	12	14	1.2	16	20	1.2	10	9	0.9	18	13	0.7
Copy disk to hard disk	3	3	1.0	17	15	0.9	4	3	0.8	16	15	0.9
Copy hard disk to disk	4	3	0.8	18	20	1.1	4	4	1.0	20	20	1.0

Table 2: Pascal I/O benchmark results (time in seconds):

Test #	Description	2/5	2/10	Ratio 2/10 to 2/5
1	Write 1024 text lines of 8 bytes each (WRITELN)	11.0	11.8	1.1
2	Read 1024 text lines of 8 bytes each (READLN)	6.5	6.4	1.0
3	Write 8 text lines of 1024 bytes each (WRITELN)	8.0	9.3	1.2
4	Read 1024 text lines of 8 bytes each (READLN)	4.8	5.0	1.0
5	Write 1 text line of 8192 bytes (WRITELN)	8.1	9.0	1.1
6	Read 1 text line of 8192 bytes (READLN)	5.8	6.2	1.1
7	Write 8192 bytes in a single block (BLOCKWRITE)	1.5	2.3	1.5
8	Read 8192 bytes in a single block (BLOCKREAD)	1.4	1.4	1.0
9	Write 100 records of 100 bytes each (sequential PUT)	7.3	7.8	1.1
10	Read 100 records of 100 bytes each (sequential GET)	1.4	1.4	1.0
11	Read 100 random records of 100 bytes each (random GET)	5.8	7.4	1.3