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

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From: Rob Laddish
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 18:23

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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc, chiu@ucsee.berkeley.edu writes:

>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...

I think that there are sram chips faster than 20ns out now. Whether they are
being used or not, I don't know. However, I agree about the rest of the
machine! I'm waiting for local bus to become standard and then for graphics
performance (& hopefully hard drive throughput) to scale up before I buy.

It's easy to get caught up in all the speed hype.

Rob

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Subject: Re: Re: Anyone has 486SX-25 and 386DX-40's SI and Landmark ratings?
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Date: 7 Aug 92 18:23:40 GMT
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