Re: Anyone has 486SX-25 and 386DX-40's SI and Landmark ratings?

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From: chiu
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 02:55

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In article <14866@umd5.umd.edu> adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir) writes:

>For that matter, pay the extra $100 on top of the DX/2 and get a true
>486DX/50...then when the DX2/100 comes out, get one of them!

Strange... while we're all her raving about the marvel of the speed the CPU
can run at, all other components necessary for computer to operate are
still in the dark ages (relative to the CPU of course)... 50MHz requires
chips faster than 20ns to run at zero wait, and what are we using today
in most of the 50MHz machines? Looks like to me a lot of CPU power is going
to waste on wait states...

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From: chiu@ucsee.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Anyone has 486SX-25 and 386DX-40's SI and Landmark ratings?
Date: 7 Aug 1992 02:55:41 GMT
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