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Article #601Re: Anyone has 486SX-25 and 386DX-40's SI and Landmark ratings?
From: Iskandar Taib
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 15:06
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 15:06
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In article <15sondINNjkn@agate.berkeley.edu> chiu@ucsee.Berkeley.EDU writes: >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... Well thats what the external cache is for. I expect we _will_ see faster DRAM in the near future. After all 150 nS DRAm was considered fast in 1989... We'll also have other interesting stuff like FRAM to play with. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iskandar Taib | The only thing worse than Peach ala Internet: NTAIB@SILVER.UCS.INDIANA.EDU | Frog is Frog ala Peach Bitnet: NTAIB@IUBACS !
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!silver.ucs.indiana.edu!ntaib From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) Subject: Re: Anyone has 486SX-25 and 386DX-40's SI and Landmark ratings? Message-ID: <BsMCn1.M3t@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Keywords: SPEED Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: silver.ucs.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University References: <BsL82H.LHI@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <14866@umd5.umd.edu> <15sondINNjkn@agate.berkeley.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1992 15:06:37 GMT Lines: 33