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Re: 486 performance

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From: Scott Evernden
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 20:53
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In article <12674@inews.intel.com> jwreilly@mipos2.UUCP (Jeffrey Reilly) writes:
>In article <MeTM3Ry00VolQH2VFv@andrew.cmu.edu> cw1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Chi-Tai (Frank) Wu) writes:
>
>On a 33MHz i486DX CPU system with 32MB of RAM and 256KB of cache:
>
>Dhrystone1.1 VAX MIPS: 27.6
>Dhrystone2.1 VAX MIPS: 26.3

Amazing.  When the 486/33 arrived, I remember the approx number being
15 mips.  Then Intel began insisting it was 21 mips.  Now I see it's
evolved upwards again.

This is encouraging.  If I just wait, my machine will eventually hit
100 mips and it won't cost me anything at all!

-scott
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From: scott@unixland.natick.ma.us (Scott Evernden)
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Subject: Re: 486 performance
Message-ID: <1992Aug4.205351.3073@unixland.natick.ma.us>
Date: 4 Aug 92 20:53:51 GMT
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