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In article <19005@rochester.ARPA> dibble@rochester.UUCP writes:
>In article <6826@utzoo.UUCP>, henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> Nobody in his right mind would buy a 780 nowadays.  And the Microvax II
>> isn't that impressive either; 68020 boxes from Sun or Integrated Solutions
>> are priced similarly and have 3-4 times the cpu crunch.
>
>The Dhrystone numbers I have seen show that a Sun III is roughly
>comparable to a Microvax II.  I might believe 1.5 times as fast.  Three to
>four times the speed is a statement that needs support.

I think you're both right. We I benchmarked the Sun3 for engineering
type loads it was only a bit faster than the 11/780, certainly less
than 2:1. When I tested for text processing numbers were in the 2.5-3.2
range, and software development values were mostly between 2 and 3. My
impression is that the Dhrystone is more representative of an
engineering load.
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