Re: Bogus IIci review in Washington Pos

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From: gillies
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1990 17:38

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>   So, in this (if true) particular case, the IIci is
> [47520sec/15sec =  3168] 3168 times the speed of the 386 MS-DOS machine.
>                          !?!?

What if his '386 box didn't have a math coprocessor?  I hear the
IIci's 68882 is pretty quick, especially at transcendental functions.
It is conceivable that in some applications, it may be 1000 times
faster.  Also, the '386 box might be thrashing the hard disk due to a
1Mb MSDOS memory limitation, while the IIci may have 8Mb of RAM.  This
could give a speedup factor > 1000 very easily.

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