Re: Pentium-90 box for Linux?

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From: Jon Leech
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 03:40

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In article <3h89kf$57c@pendragon.jsc.nasa.gov>,
James Conrad Pope Smith <smithj@smithj.jsc.nasa.gov> wrote:
>Likewise, I have a P5/90 with 32 MB RAM, gig disk, etc.  I ran a matrix
>decomposition on a matrix of order 300 or so, and it compared favorably
>to our HPs.  CPU time was about equal.  The HP was a 735 or 755.

    A 735/99 turns in over twice the SPECfp of a Pentium/90 (the Pentium
comes within 20% or so on just one of the suite, alvinn), which should make
you wonder about this. Perhaps you didn't turn on full optimization on the
HP, or were thrashing.
    Jon
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Subject: Re: Pentium-90 box for Linux?
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