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 (01mbmccabe@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu) wrote:
OS/2> > I've noticed that all the snippets of wisdom accumulated over the millenia,
OS/2> > all the valuable lessons people have learned time and time again, have been
OS/2> > completely forgotten by the vast majority of computerphiles.  It is completely
OS/2> > amazing to me that so many people are running around under the impression that
OS/2> > people should be judged by the type of computer they own or language they
OS/2> > choose to program in--and that money _can_ buy happiness and bigger _is_
OS/2> > always better.  I have run into many people who flagrantly brag that they
OS/2> > own a 66 MHz 486.  That really is pathetic when you stop and think about it.
OS/2> 
OS/2> What is the deal with those 66mHz claims anywho?  I've heard that it's not
OS/2> altogether a true statement -- one of those claims that _should_ be followed by
OS/2> a little asterisk for disclaimer.   Anyone?

He is talking about the DX2 66mhz chip.  It runs at 66mhz internally and
33mhz externally.  That way, a person who has a machine with a 33mhz bus can
pop the new chip in and get a vast improvement in performance.  Depending
on what kinds of applications you run, the actual performance boost
varies.  For me, I noticed almost a doubling of performance in ray tracing
(under OS/2), but no big shakes for spreadsheets and word processing.
However, it seems to make a HUGE difference when I'm running unix on my
machine.  Processing 500K of compressed news batches only takes about
a minute and compiles are very fast.

This clock doubling technology thing is nothing new.  Motorola chips
have been doing it for a long time...they just don't make a big deal
out of it.

The bottom line:  If you don't have any heavy math or mpu piggy
programs to run, you're probably better off spending your hard 
earned bucks on a faster hard disk or more memory.

Cheers,

Chris

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