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Article #508Re: 486/50's vs Sun 2's
From: Dan Ts'o
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 06:45
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 06:45
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In article <1992Jul27.054828.21618@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> ins760z@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (*** Irving Hofman **) writes: >PC-Magazine recently compared the speed of a 486/50, Sun, Next, Mac, etc and >found that the 486/50 was the fastest of the lot. They conducted benchtests >by timing certain processor intensive operations in wordprocessors, >spreadsheets, and desktop publishing using the same programs on all platforms. The actual results weren't quite that simple. Basically, the 486/50 did seem to keep up and could be considered to be in the same class as the workstations. Somethings were faster on the PC, somethings were slower, in particular floating point operations, relative to the Sparc, for example.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu!tso From: tso@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Dan Ts'o) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: 486/50's vs Sun 2's Message-ID: <13831@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> Date: 4 Aug 1992 06:45:09 GMT References: <1992Jul20.024153.23311@news.Hawaii.Edu> <1992Jul27.054828.21618@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> Sender: usenet@bcm.tmc.edu Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,Tx Lines: 10 Nntp-Posting-Host: cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu